Morrison Planetarium - Arts, Science, Museum - Observatory/planetarium San Francisco Attractions Map - View a map of the San Francisco's top attractions. Find out more about the any attraction. MAP INSTRUCTIONS If you move your mouse over a marker, the name of the attractions will appear. If you click on the marker, an information window will appear that contains the address, a description and a picture of the attraction. Click on the name and you will land on our individual attraction page. From there you can navigate to the attraction's official web site. The colored map markers indicate the different types of attractions. Red are Sights, Blue markers are Arts, Science & Museum locations, and Green markers are for parks & Gardens. If you click on the Legend option, you can choose which type of attractions will appear on the map by area. Choose just one type or chose all for a complete viewing of San Francisco attractions. If you click on the Attractions by Type tab, you will find a list of all the map's attractions by type with descriptions, a thumbnail picture and a link will highlight the attraction on the map with the information window open. As with all Google maps, you can zoom the map in and out; you can reposition it by dragging it with your mouse; and you can also change the map type from a normal Street view to a Satelite view, or to a Hybrid view that combines the other two views.

Morrison Planetarium

Arts, Science, Museum

The Morrison Planetarium is named after Alexander Francis Morrison, a San Francisco attorney and philanthropist who lived from 1856 to 1921. Mr. Morrison became a member of the California Academy of Sciences in 1906 and a patron in 1916. After his death in 1921, his widow, May Treat Morrison, became an Academy member and Trustee and eventually bequeathed a substantial sum to the Academy for the construction of a memorial to her husband. The Morrison Planetarium's dome is 65 feet in diameter. The Planetarium's main instrument - the large star projector at the center of the theater - is 13 feet long, weighing approximately 5000 pounds, and projects a field of 3800 stars. The main light sources for the projector are two 1000-watt tungsten halogen lamps. It was controlled from a console with hundreds of switches, knobs, and faders. In addition to the star projector, the Planetarium is equipped with two video projectors and 49 permanently-installed carousel slide projectors in the following configurations: two 12-projector panorama systems, two 6-projector all-sky systems, five fixed-position dissolver pairs, two projectors with programmable slewing mirrors, and a zoom. Numerous other customized special effects projectors vary in number and specific function from show to show. All projectors, star projector motions, house lights, and tape cues are controlled using SPICE, a theater automation system for planetaria designed and built by Sky-Skan, Inc. of Nashua, NH.

Observatory/planetarium

San Francisco

55 Concourse Drive

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San Francisco Attractions Map

View a map of the San Francisco's top attractions. Find out more about the any attraction.

MAP INSTRUCTIONS

If you move your mouse over a marker, the name of the attractions will appear. If you click on the marker, an information window will appear that contains the address, a description and a picture of the attraction. Click on the name and you will land on our individual attraction page. From there you can navigate to the attraction's official web site.

The colored map markers indicate the different types of attractions. Red are Sights, Blue markers are Arts, Science & Museum locations, and Green markers are for parks & Gardens.

If you click on the Legend option, you can choose which type of attractions will appear on the map by area. Choose just one type or chose all for a complete viewing of San Francisco attractions.

If you click on the Attractions by Type tab, you will find a list of all the map's attractions by type with descriptions, a thumbnail picture and a link will highlight the attraction on the map with the information window open.

As with all Google maps, you can zoom the map in and out; you can reposition it by dragging it with your mouse; and you can also change the map type from a normal Street view to a Satelite view, or to a Hybrid view that combines the other two views.