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Derrick Pitts (born January 22, 1955) is an American astronomer and science communicator.Pitts studied at St. Lawrence University and has been employed at the Franklin Institute since 1978 where he is chief astronomer and director of the institute's Fels Planetarium.
The Fels Planetarium opens January 1, 1934 at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute Science Museum, using a Zeiss Mark II projector. 1935: The planetarium at Griffith Observatory opened on May 14 and the Hayden Planetarium on October 2. During these years, other instruments began to show the sky in Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
KStars is a free and open-source planetarium program built using the KDE Frameworks. It is available for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. A light version of KStars is available for Android devices. It provides an accurate graphical representation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time.
Buhl Planetarium (part of Carnegie Science Center), Pittsburgh; Charles M. Kanev Planetarium, Dickinson College, Carlisle; Detwiler Planetarium, Lycoming College, Williamsport; Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; Hatter Planetarium at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg; North Hills High School, West View
The first half of the book described the sky and legends attached to it. The last half of the book contained star charts to be punched out and held in front of lamps, projecting stars in their proper relationships onto a wall or other smooth clear surface. Spitz dodecahedron planetarium projector (1953) A Spitz Junior home planetarium projector ...
The Frost Planetarium is a 250-seat full-dome screen with a diameter of 67 feet (20 m) and a 16-million-color, 8K projection system. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The three-story, cone-shaped, 500,000-US-gallon (1,900,000 L) Aquarium is open to the top level and also includes a 31-foot (9.4 m) diameter oculus lens at the bottom for viewing the fish, rays and ...
White noise, pink noise, and brown noise can help you sleep better. Sleep doctors explain the science behind the different sound frequencies and which is best.
In addition to public shows, the planetarium serves as a classroom space for East Stroudsburg University science courses. [ 3 ] The Schisler Museum of Wildlife & Natural History and McMunn Planetarium are located on the ground floor of the Warren E. '55 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center at East Stroudsburg University, a Member ...