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...
Digistar Cloud Contest – Gustave Holst’s The Planets

Digistar Cloud Contest – Gustave Holst’s The Planets

February 9, 2016 — Evans & Sutherland is pleased to announce a new Cloud contest that will begin February 1, 2016. The contest is to create Digistar sequences synchronized to movements of the orchestral suite The Planets, composed by Gustav Holst. About The...
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...
Digital Renovation of the Space Theater

Digital Renovation of the Space Theater

The Space Theatre in the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung was the first large planetarium in Taiwan. Upon deciding to update the facility, the museum started its renovation with a single multi-purpose 8K Digistar 5 system in August 2014, with the...
Hefei, China’s Digistar 5 Theater Debut

Hefei, China’s Digistar 5 Theater Debut

Hefei Science and Technology Museum (HSTM) officially introduced its Digistar 5 dome theater to the public on October 1st, beginning of the National Day holiday in China. The Digistar 5 dome theater’s grand opening was a very popular event. Local news reported...