E&S News
Fulldome Art with Digistar5
Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science recently hosted an event featuring the art of local artist, Jenna Citrus, featured on their dome using Digistar 5. We love seeing all the creative and artistic uses of Digistar.
Milwaukee Public Museum Upgrade
In September, the Daniel M. Soref National Geographic Dome Theater & Planetarium (Dome Theater) at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) will replace their giant screen 15/70 film system with a new 8K Digistar 5 immersive digital cinema/digital planetarium system from Evans & Sutherland.
Digistar 5 Dazzles Audiences, Engages Students at Refurbished COSI Planetarium
“Upgrading to the Digistar 5 system with the Christie projectors was huge for us,” says Kate Storm, director of theaters, COSI. “This system does everything we ever wanted a planetarium to do or wished it could do.”
Houston Museum of Natural Science
The renovated Burke Baker Planetarium is the first True8K™ planetarium in the world. Across a 50 foot Spitz NanoSeam dome, the system displays over 50 million unique pixels and provides 8,000 pixels across every meridian.
Ushering the Bangkok Planetarium into the 21st Century
What do you do when your mid-20th-century-vintage planetarium is in need of an update? As many other facilities are doing these days, we at the Bangkok Planetarium at the Science Center for Education wanted to do a tune-up on an aging facility.
Houston Reaches for the Stars
Astronomy knowledge is exploding at ever wavelength, taking us closer to the edge of space and the beginning of time. Now planetarium projection technology can provide the computer processing, data storage, resolution, and brightness to deliver the farthest galaxy.
Burke Baker’s Planetarium Reopening Out of this World
“This week Evans & Sutherland delivered on their True8K vision and exceeded all our expectations in Houston…”
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 dome.
True8K Digistar 5 System Ships to Houston
The True8K Digistar 5 system with 10 Sony projectors is carefully packed and shipped, bound for installation at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
At Last, The Ultimate Planetarium
On March 11, the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Burke Baker Planetarium becomes the world’s first True8K™ Planetarium, displaying fulldome starfields and movies with over 50 million unique pixels. A typical digital movie screen is only 2 million pixels.