|
Report By Barbara Stephens
Our visit to the Planetarium in
Chichester was a great success
and was thoroughly enjoyed by
everyone.
The gentlemen who run it are
extremely helpful and kind and
looked after us so well with
coffee and tea on arrival.
The actual planetarium is a
large dome shaped building with
rows of aircraft seats all round
to seat 100 people – very
comfortable they were too. The
performance started with one of
the experts telling us all about
the night skies and the various
stars and planets to look out
for. The room was very gradually
darkened so your eyes could get
adjusted but when they reduced
the light completely the effect
of the “night sky” was stunning
and with no light pollution – it
was wonderful – it took me back
to the days during the war when
no lights were allowed anywhere
and the night sky was completely
natural unless we had an air
raid and the searchlights would
light up the sky.
I was amazed at how these
various stars, comets etc stayed
together, they just hang in
there?
The performance lasted about an
hour then we were shepherded
into another air conditioned
room where we had our picnic
that Gill and I arranged between
us, and once again drinks were
provided. |
