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Planetariums

SciDome System Includes

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The standard SciDome theater system includes:

  • 1920 x 1200 resolution digital projector with fisheye lens (includes stand and shroud)
  • Starry Night Dome™ planetarium software
  • ATM-4 automation suite with fulldome multimedia player
  • Console Desk – Rack
  • Starry Night Elementary, Middle School, and High School Curriculum
  • SciDome Fulldome curriculum by Dr. David Bradstreet
  • Spitz Fulldome Space Library
  • One-year fulldome show license
  • One-year System Warranty

Starry Night Dome

Stonehenge Grids
Orrery Planets

Complete 3D Hipparcos, Tycho 2, USNO2 database of 13.5 million stars. SAA catalog ,Variable stars, GCVS, and GCVS-Hipparcos catalogs. Thousands of deep space objects with detailed descriptions from Messier and Caldwell catalogs. Herschel catalog of 400 deep sky objects. Corrected NGC/IC catalogs with over 13,000 deep sky objects. Over 18,000 quasars. Tully database with 3D position of 28,000 galaxies. Uppsala General catalog with 13,000 galaxies. PGC catalog with 60,000 galaxies. 100,000+ deep sky images from the Digitized Sky Survey.

  • Comprehensive database of dwarf planets, extra-solar planets, satellites, comets, asteroids, meteor showers, etc.
  • Display of planets and all solar system planets, moons as quality textured, accurately placed 3D objects. Custom pixel shaders for surfaces, shadows.
  • Accurate annual motion of all stars, planets, sun and moons over a +/- 100,000 year span.
  • Constellation/asterism overlays, local, celestial, ecliptic, galactic grids.
  • Continuous three-dimensional navigation capability from the solar system out to 700 million light years into intergalactic space.
  • Automatic navigation to any location, planet, moon, comet, asteroid or satellite.
  • Customizable photorealistic 360-degree panoramas.
  • Ability to add user images anywhere in the night sky.
  • View dynamic Hertzprung-Russell diagrams for any area of the sky.
  • "Find" command to locate, magnify any celestial object.
  • Ability to import, place, slew, zoom slides and video for multimedia presentations.
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