Planetarium Hamburg — Attraction in Hamburg

Pre-orderd tickets to a show since it was quite popular for English. Me and my friends get there on Thursday in early July the place is packed with kids ages from 7 to 13 like 75 plus kids with adults. The entire place is built like a dome for obvious reasons so the noice was defeaning. Our german friend tells us school is still open at this time a year in germany, I thought it was fair enough textbook example of an educational classtrip.

We send our only german speaking friend to the counter to get our tickets for the english show, our mistake you need to clarify to the person in the reception you need headphones for english for the show otherwise they will just stamp your tickets and send you off.

Now the show it self was good if in german. The one we saw was a travle through space good show what I saw of it. I fell asleep in the later half as having German David Attenbourough speaking words at me with little to no understanding or context in a dark room while spinning around space in a riclined chair can do that to you a bit of an expensive nap not gonna lie.

The reclining chair was bit small for me and most of my mates as we are almost all in the 180-190 category and there is no headrest or foot stool to compensate for it which i suppose is fair but would have been nice.

I would probably have rated the show higher if I understood it. There may need to be some chair adjustments and shows either fully in english or a checkbox at the reception if you want to listen in english or german this way no mixups. If possible maybe have either an age restriction on the show or a booked timeslot for kids just since they are a bit exciteable and have a tendency to be noicy even during the performance (might be hard to execute).

But overall a...

Planetarium Hamburg opened to the public on April 30, 1930. It is situated in an Art-Deco water tower, designed by Oskar Menzel and built between 1912 and 1915. However, it was only used as such until 1924, and subsequently converted to a planetarium. At the opening of the planetarium in 1930, a Zeiss Universarium Mark II projector, already acquired by the City of Hamburg in 1925, became the planetarium's centerpiece. Subsequent Zeiss projectors were a Mark IV in 1957, a Mark VI in 1983 and a Universarium IX since 2006.

In 2011 Planetarium Hamburg became one of the first ESO Outreach Partner Organisations (EOPO) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).[3] The same year, Planetarium Hamburg became the first planetarium in Europe to use fulldome 3D-Stereoscopic technology.

With the start of reconstruction from 3 August 2015, the Planetarium is closed until the end of 2016. The core of the work is the development of the entrance from the outside pedestal on which the water tower stands. From 2017 the new premises and service facilities will provide all visitors of the Hamburg Planetarium improved access, more space, more comfort and advanced conference facilities. In the on city park level emerging areas in the base and the extended, previous lobby level on the first floor will be the new place for gastronomy, Shop, events, exhibitions, offices and toilets provided. Access to the planetarium will take place in the future at ground level from the City Park. Two elevators will in future facilitate access to the Star Hall and the popular observation deck, which also will be barrier-free for the first time then. The expansion will bring the added value of an area of approximately 1,200 square meters floor space with them....

Visited Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon show... The video basically ruined the whole show. The Pink Floyd music is of course great but if you just show falling money under the Money song, or clocks under the Time song - it doesn’t make any sense, for instance.

I still also think that your Planetarium is equipped very very good with high quality devices. But finally during the show I’ve seen moving on me fractals, cubes, spirals of different colors and so on - is it really the level of the technology installed there? And from the other side is it really somehow related to Pink Floyd? I understand it’s psychedelic music and a great one, but showing spontaneous picture of different colors isn’t something psychedelic at all.

I have read that the video may be even in kind of live mode, but I’d never believe that it was being created during the show - the performer knew what he was doing I believe.

Finally the pictures reminded more those ones from windows 95 or 98 when the monitor was in “sleep” mode.

Though the best moment was when the weird movie disappeared and only sky with stars was shown. This was really good moment especially with the music.

Getting to the conclusion. I know that “Dark Side of the Moon” isn’t “the Wall”, but I guess you have seen the movie “the Wall” based on the album... there are not only filmed pictures there, there are also drawn parts, and it fits there. In addition they have clips on their songs and so on.

Or at least just show the stars and space - which is super psychedelic thing itself if one would...