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The Digital Universe Atlas has spun off a commercial-grade planetarium platform from SCISS called Uniview that was featured in the White House star party on October 7, 2009. The Atlas database and Partiview interface is compatible with professional planetarium software such as Evans & Sutherland's Digistar and Sky-Skan's DigitalSky 2.
The planetarium features a 15-meter dome and seats 250 visitors. In 2019, after an 18-month renovation, the mechanical projector was replaced with a hybrid digital opto-mechanical projector offering 360-degree immersive video effects. [9] The planetarium conducts regular shows in Tamil and English about astronomy and space science.
The Buhl Planetarium. The planetarium opened on October 24, 1939, and was the fifth major planetarium in the United States. [3] [4] The Buhl Foundation completely funded the construction and furnishing of the Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science building at a cost of $1.07 million. [5]
The Science Center's digital planetarium is the only one available to the public in Pinellas County. It can show the sky as it was on any specific date in history and when the center is rented out for birthday parties or anniversaries, it is often set to show the night sky as it appeared the night of the event commemorated.
Inside a planetarium projection hall. (Belgrade Planetarium, Serbia) Inside the same hall during projection.(Belgrade Planetarium, Serbia)A planetarium (pl.: planetariums or planetaria) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.
The Planetarium hall – the semidome planetarium is the most popular permanent fixture at Bangkok Science Museum. There are presentations shown inside the hall with topics changing every 2 months. Exhibition hall 2 – exhibits the advancements of technologies in various fields, such as THEOS, Quickbird, Terra satellite, and more.
Cosmosphere is an international science education center and space museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. It was previously known as the Kansas Cosmosphere . The museum houses over 13,000 spaceflight artifacts—the largest combined collection of US and Russian spaceflight artifacts in the world, and is home to various space educational ...
The Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium is a science museum and planetarium in Tucson, Arizona. It is part of the University of Arizona. It is named after American author Grace Flandrau. The Eos Planetarium Theater has a 15.2 meter dome and seats 146 people. The science center includes a range of science exhibits related to Earth and space ...