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.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment