Lecture: A Hundred Years in The Dark: The History of Planetariums within the Past 100 Years
Fri, Dec 12
|Wilcox Hall, Pace University
Featured Lecture by Sam Storch, Retired Astronomer and elected Fellow of the International Planetarium Society
Time & Location
Dec 12, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM EST
Wilcox Hall, Pace University, 861 Bedford Rd, Pleasantville, NY 10570, USA
About the event
The lecture will take place in the David Pecker Lecture Hall, located in Wilcox Hall. Attendees may arrive at 7:00 PM for pre-lecture socializing. The lecture itself will begin at 7:30 PM. The agenda for our December meeting is as follows:
Club Update by WAA President Jordan Webber
What's Up? - A brief presentation on what to look for in the sky for the coming month given by WAA VP for Field Events Bob Kelly
Featured Lecture: A Hundred Years in The Dark: The History of Planetariums within the Past 100 Years by Sam Storch (see below for details)
About December's Featured Lecture:
We celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the invention of the only device that can realistically reproduce the glorious sight of the entire sky on demand, from any location, date, and time, at our command, for young and old alike.