E&S News
Otago Museum’s Planetarium Shows are Sellout Success
Using Digistar 5, the talented team at Otago Museum in Dundin, New Zealand, produced three new planetarium shows for their Grand Opening in December 2015.
Bangkok Planetarium Returns to the Stars in January
The newly renovated Bangkok planetarium will reopen with a ceremony on Jan. 5 and offer free admission for five days through Jan. 9.
EC-1, City of Industry
At EC-1 City of Industry East, there is a new 8K Digistar 5 devoted to astronomy education. This is the first of two Digistar 5 installations at EC1 Lodz, Poland.
Griffith Observatory Upgrades to Digistar 5
Griffith Observatory’s new 8K Digistar 5 system drives 6 Christie Boxer projectors to produce crisp, bright images never before seen on their historic dome.
Christie Case Study on Science Museum of Virginia
Making the move from film to digital projectors, the Science Museum of Virginia upgrades their 1570 giant screen film projection system to the world’s first 8K digital fulldome system installed as a 1570 film projection replacement in a dome, enhancing the content they can offer.
New Digistar 5 to Illuminate Scobee Planetarium
San Antonio College’s Scobee Planetarium will close for the remainder of the semester starting Nov. 20 to upgrade the projection system in the theater.
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.
Digistar on the White House Lawn
Monday night’s Astronomy Day celebration on the White House lawn featured a portable Discovery Dome operated by educators from the Lunar and Planetary Institute with support from the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Rice University, and Evans & Sutherland.
GSCA Dome Day 2015
WRAP-UP OF DIGITAL DOME DEMO BY EVANS & SUTHERLAND As a follow-up to the world's first, split screen demo between 15/70 film and 8K fulldome digital projection at the Science Museum of Virginia last October, Evans & Sutherland (E&S) again demonstrated an...
Innovative New Theater at Shanghai Natural History Museum
A groundbreaking theater design by Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation (E&S) gives a whole new meaning to the idea of immersive environments in public entertainment.