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Nehru Planetarium

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Hope you are all loving to know about Teen Murti Bhavan and are also planning to go there. And if not than I guess after reading this post you will. This post is about Nehru Planetarium.

Nehru Planetarium

Planetarium corridor
There are about 5 Nehru Planetariums all around India. One of them is situated in Teen Murti Bhavan. It attraces about 2 lakh tourist per year.  This planetarium was inaugrated by Indira Gandhi on Feburary 6’ 1984. It has about 270 seats and is a dome shaped sky threatre. It promotes astronomy and give information on planets, solar system, constellation, zodiac, milkyway etc. Nehru Planetarium in itself contains several quizes, megastar projector, telescopes, Soyuz-T-10 which carried Rakesh Sharma, it also has his spacesuit and his journal on display. It has a dome shaped sky threatre having definite optical star projector which is capable of showing 2 billion stars at once. The screen in the threatre is made of fibre glass. When major solar eclipse occur it also arranges several telescopes, solar filters, projection boxes, etc. 

Kushk Mahal

Kushk Mahal
Kushk Mahal is located in the premises of Teen Murti Bhavan.Kushk mahal which is an old hunting lounge(shikargah) was built by Feroz Shah  Tughlaq between 1312 A.D. to 1414 A.D. This momument is made of stones and has three hours opening, has a flat roof. It is also three Aisle deep. It is at the height of 15 feet. It is accesible through by staircase. It mostly goes unnoticed because it is surrounded by a lot of trees. It is mostly seen when you coming towards museum from Planetarium.

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