Welcome to the British Association of Planetaria

The British Association of Planetaria (BAP) is a group of planetarium professionals and individuals devoted to astronomy and science education.

Find a planetarium - this website provides information and contact details for all BAP planetaria within the UK and Ireland as well as offering useful links to additional astronomy related resources.

As an organisation we aim to promote planetaria and improve communication between like-minded people who share interests in science and astronomy. If you're an astronomy enthusiast, a planetarium professional or you're thinking about setting up a planetarium then feel free to get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

"The heavens are half of our visual field. If we don't pay attention to the sky, we are missing half of the beauty of the world " - Chet Raymo

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Latest News :

This year 2010 - 2011, BAP is generously being sponsored by the following companies:

Digitalis Education (portable and small fixed dome market)
Evans & Sutherland
Global Immersion
NSC Creative
RSA Cosmos
Sky-Skan

Many thanks to all of them for their support of the work we do in the UK. If you are looking to build or update a planetarium, set up a mobile dome or find a full dome planetarium show, please view details for each company on our sponsors page as well as details for other vendor members of BAP under our resources page.

Join the BAP :

If you feel that you or your organisation could benefit from being a BAP member, then take a moment to fill out our membership application form.