Friday, March 15, 2013

The Planetarium Reopens!


In late 2011 the Vanderbilt Planetarium closed for renovations. They completely renovated the building and dug a giant hole in the middle of the room.  The hole was for a brand new state-of-the-art planetarium projector which retracts into the floor. Last night I was invited to the reopening of the Vanderbilt, and the facility is stunning.  Brand new comfortable seats, and an incredible Konica-Minolta projector makes the sky come alive inside the dome.  The control system looks like the flight deck of a 747 aircraft.  The projector is the ball in the bottom center of the photograph, and you can see this amazingly detailed recreation of traveling through the Milky Way.

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