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The Pacific Planetarium Association (PPA) is a non-profit organization with members mostly from planetariums in the western states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington.
Our mission is to facilitate communication and cooperation among members of the planetarium community to help them provide the very best services to their respective communities in science literacy, arts & humanities awareness, and understanding of our universe.
Planetarium Planetarium projector and M81, M82
Upcoming PPA events:
Upcoming PPA events:
2025 Planetarians' Zoom Seminars (PZSs) are usually on the last Friday of the month. They are recorded and archived on the Seminar Archive page. For connection URL, see the Seminar Connection page. See Seminar Schedule page for full descriptions.
2026 Jan 30 at 11am PST (2pm EST, 19:00 UTC), The Cosmos Must Be Searchable: Advertising Planetarium Programming in the Age of AI and Algorithms with Shanil Virani.
2026 Feb 27 at 2pm PST (5pm EST, 22:00 UTC), Behind the scenes with Blender-based at NSF NOIRLab with Ron Proctor.
Announcements:
Announcements:
New PPA Officers as of January 3rd 2026: Secretary Tony Smith and Treasurer Andrew Kerr
See recordings of past Planetarians' Zoom Seminar on the Seminar Archive page. Latest: People Management for the Planetarium with Mary Holt.
NASA Resource Page for Planetariums - updated 03/14/23
The Pointer, a PPA magazine published from 1968 t0 1970, will be appearing on this site's Publications page. The first six issues are available now.
You can now make DONATIONS to PPA. See below.
To become a PPA member, see the PPA Membership page.
M13 image by Rich Lohman
The Pacific Planetarium Association pay tribute to the lives and legacies of dear members who have passed on, but remain with us in memory: Don Warren (1999), Charles Hagar (2013), Lonny Baker (2015), Dale Etheridge (2019), Mike Bennett (2021), and Steve Craig (2021).
PPA is an affiliate of the International Planetarium Society. Recordings of recent IPS virtual conferences are on the IPS youtube channel.
PPA is also one of the associations in the Western Alliance Conference of Planetarium Associations (WAC—Western Alliance Conference).
PPA youtube channel: youtube.com/@ppadomes
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