Baader Planetarium Information

Baader Planetarium is a middle sized enterprise having 50 years experience in producing and installing astronomical equipment. More than 600 observatory domes of sizes from 2 m up to 8.5 m have been mounted, together with a large number of projection domes for planetarium installations up to 10 m in diameter. Observatory domes serve for a multitude of applications for scientific use around the world specialized to work under the hardest of environments, with installations in Antarctica (Dome C - 84°C) to high Arctic regions such as Svalbard (NyAalesund -45°C), Ellesmere Island (Eureca -60°C), in desert conditions with hermetic seals against dust and a number of high Alpine locations. Also the company specializes in door key ready Observatories for amateur, university, scientific and commercial application. We build and integrate high end robotic telescopes with apertures up to 2 meter as european sole distributor of Planewave Instruments USA and 10 Micron ITALY, alongside many more brands. Our customers are Institutions, Universities and Observatories and companies around the world, among them AWI(Alfred Wegener Institute for polar research); MPI (Max Planck Institution), German Museum Munich; University of Hamburg (PIST-Project), The Open University UK (PIRATE-project), and many others.