Welcome.

Welcome to the pages dedicated to the 6th European Meeting of Small and Portable Planetaria. The conference will take place between 1st and 4th September 2009 in M. Copernicus Planetarium and Observatory in Chorzow.

The aim of the conference is to exchange knowledge and experience in the field of working with small and portable planetaria. It will also be a good occasion to learn about different kinds of planetarium equipment: from different dome solutions to analogue and digital projection systems.

The conference is taking place in the largest and the oldest Polish planetarium to underline the fact that small and portable planetaria are not a competition to their bigger cousins often combined with observatories. They are rather their more flexible counterparts which are often able to reach smaller towns easier and quicker. Although less spectacular than bigger planetariums, they still create excitement.