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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The International Dark-Sky Association and Loch Ness Productions are giving attendees of the International Astronomical Union Congress in Beijing a sneak peak of a full dome video on light pollution called "Losing the Dark." The video showing at the Beijing Planetarium on August 29 is a public service announcement that will give onlookers important facts about light pollution. "Our team designed the show to emphasize some of the...
GREENBELT, Md., June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A NASA computer animation that shows how the sun's heat drives the Earth's swirling winds and ocean currents and a series that tours the lunar surface and the evolution of the moon are the scientific visualizations selected by an annual conference that presents and publishes the best in computer graphics and technical research. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Association for Computer...
GREENBELT, Md., June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An annual conference that presents and publishes the best in computer graphics and technical research chose a NASA excerpt from the presentation, "Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine," as one of its select entries of 2012. (Logo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The computer visualization is titled "Coronal Mass Ejection and Ocean/Wind Circulation." It is also published today (Tues., June 19)...
CHICAGO, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 25, 2012, take a mind-blowing tour of the Universe like no other at the Adler Planetarium. Welcome to the Universe is the next adventure departing from the Grainger Sky Theater, the most technologically advanced theater in the world. In Welcome to the Universe, audiences travel a billion light-years and back flying through space, orbiting the Moon, zooming into a canyon on Mars, and soaring through the cosmic web where a...
CHICAGO, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Adler Planetarium President Paul H. Knappenberger Jr., Ph.D., announced today that he would step down at the end of 2012 after 21 years of service. Knappenberger, who joined the Adler in 1991, has led the Museum through two major long-range plans that have significantly strengthened the planetarium. The most recent was initiated during the Adler's 75th anniversary in 2005. In that year, the institution announced a strategic plan to...
CHADDS FORD, Pa., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The upgraded digital display system in the new Grainger Sky Theater isn't the only state-of-the-art technology audiences will experience when they visit Chicago's Adler Planetarium. Visitors to the new theater will see the universe projected on the most technologically advanced projection dome in the world: the NanoSeam(TM) dome, created by Spitz Inc, located in Chadds Ford, PA . When Adler audiences fly through the universe inside the new...
CHADDS FORD, Pa., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The upgraded digital display system in the new Grainger Sky Theater isn't the only state-of-the-art technology audiences will experience when they visit Chicago's Adler Planetarium. Visitors to the new theater will see the Universe projected on the most technologically advanced projection dome in the world: the Spitz NanoSeam(TM) dome. When Adler audiences fly through the Universe inside the new 70-foot hemispherical Grainger Sky Theater,...
Visitors take off on a Deep Space Adventure for a one-of-a-kind immersive experience CHICAGO, April 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, July 8, the Adler Planetarium will reveal a new, immersive space experience like no other in the world! Deep Space Adventure takes you aboard the observation deck of a futuristic starship where you will be surrounded by the larger-than-life phenomena of our dynamic Universe. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110425/DC88730 ) The...
BREMERTON, Wash., March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. proudly announces the addition of two new models to the company's market-leading line of Digitarium® digital planetarium systems. The Digitarium® Kappa projects a 1600 pixel diameter circle, which results in over two million pixels reaching the dome surface. It combines a high resolution, high brightness DLP projector with a proprietary fisheye lens and specialized computer control unit. The Kappa...
58 State-of-the-art motion seats to be installed at the Moscow Planetarium WEST SUSSEX, UK and LONGUEUIL, QC, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Immersive theatre specialist Global Immersion and D-BOX Technologies Inc. (DBO.a on the TSX Venture Exchange), a leader in innovative motion technology announce their first collaboration as Global Immersion's latest project at the prestigious Moscow Planetarium will require 58 D-BOX motion seats in time for the official public opening of two...
