Gdynia Maritime University GMU

The building of the GMU Faculty of Navigation houses the most modern facility of its type in Poland. Upgraded in 2011, the Planetarium is named after Professor and Master Mariner A. Ledóchowski, who served as an officer in the Polish Navy and Merchant Navy and taught astronomy and navigation at the State Maritime School in Tczew.

The Planetarium is used to conduct classes and lectures for students in astronavigation, as well as organise showings for astronomy enthusiasts and lessons for visiting schools.

Its advanced technological capabilities allow the planetarium to display some 6,000 stars an unparalleled number of other celestial bodies as well as particular points and lines of the celestial sphere, including the ecliptics, the celestial equator, the local meridian and many more.

The facility can also show projections of galaxies, nebulas, and constellations - in approximation, movement, statically, and visible from an exact point on the Earth and at a particular moment; an image of the sky above Poland or New Zealand - from a thousands years ago or in a thousand years' time, speeding up or slowing down the clock as desired.