Griffith Observatory

Griffith Observatory

Los Angeles, California SYSTEM HIGHLIGHTS Six (6) Christie Boxer Projectors 30,000 Lumens per Projector  75 Foot Horizontal Dome / 290 Seats Hybrid Planetarium – Integrated with Zeiss Mark IX Universarium Los Angeles – The Griffith Observatory’s Samuel Oschin...
Aurora Themed Bangkok Planetarium Opens with Excitement

Aurora Themed Bangkok Planetarium Opens with Excitement

More than 50 years after it first opened, Bangkok’s Science Centre for Education – or the Planetarium as it was formerly known – recently underwent eight months of renovations, opening its doors wide again to moonwalkers, both young and old, just in...
Updates to the Griffith’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium

Updates to the Griffith’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium

The Griffith Observatory’s Samuel Oschin Planetarium re-invented itself again in late 2015, nearly ten years after a major renovation that ushered the Los Angeles facility squarely into the realm of fulldome. The latest update brought Digistar 5 along with six...
GSCA Dome Day 2015

GSCA Dome Day 2015

WRAP-UP OF DIGITAL DOME DEMO BY EVANS & SUTHERLAND As a follow-up to the world’s first, split screen demo between 15/70 film and 8K fulldome digital projection at the Science Museum of Virginia last October, Evans & Sutherland (E&S) again...
Verkehrshaus – Swiss Transport Museum

Verkehrshaus – Swiss Transport Museum

“8K” Digistar 5 · Lucerne, Switzerland SYSTEM HIGHLIGHTS  “8K” Image Resolution Five 5,000 lumen 10,000:1 contrast JVC 4K projectors  1 fL of brightness Auto Alignment & Auto Blending Systems Astrotec 18 meter diameter dome 230 seats in...