Houston Museum of Natural Science

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Burke Baker Planetarium SYSTEM HIGHLIGHTS World’s first True8K™ Theater 10 Cove Mounted 4K Sony VPL-GTZ280 Projectors  50 Foot NanoSeam Dome – 20° Tilt 50 Million Unique Pixels on the Dome Auto-Blend & Auto-Align System Houston, Texas – The renovated Burke...
Ushering the Bangkok Planetarium into the 21st Century

Ushering the Bangkok Planetarium into the 21st Century

What do you do when your mid-20th-century-vintage planetarium is in need of an update? As many other facilities are doing these days, we at the Bangkok Planetarium at the Science Center for Education wanted to do a tune-up on an aging...
Houston Reaches for the Stars

Houston Reaches for the Stars

Astronomy knowledge is exploding at ever wavelength, taking us closer to the edge of space and the beginning of time. Now planetarium projection technology can provide the computer processing, data storage, resolution, and brightness to deliver the farthest...
The World’s First True 8K Dome Theater

The World’s First True 8K Dome Theater

The renovated Burke Baker Planetarium is the first planetarium in the world to display a true 8K image with over 8,000 pixels across every meridian and over 50 million pixels filling the...
At Last, The Ultimate Planetarium

At Last, The Ultimate Planetarium

January 26, 2016 — Evans & Sutherland to Install World’s Highest Resolution Digital Planetarium at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. On March 11, the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Burke Baker Planetarium becomes the world’s first...