Planetarium upgrade provides a digital full dome video immersive experience
Get ready to explore the universe like never before as the North Museum Planetarium received a cosmic make-over. A new digital projector now splashes video across our entire 41-foot dome providing an immersive experience and propelling central Pennsylvania’s largest planetarium into the 21st century.
You’ll feel like you are soaring through the universe, visiting the planets, or running along with dinosaurs, with video completely surrounding you.
Our new High Definition system and high brightness projector, the first of its kind in the nation. The cutting-edge system was developed by ePlanetarium of Houston, Texas.
This new projector system dramatically improves our visitors’ experience. Not only are we be better able to visually show astronomical concepts, but we’ll be able to use the planetarium technology to venture into the other sciences.
We'll continue to use our star projector to provide its incredibly accurate depiction of the night sky for our live Night Sky Tour programs.
The $50,000 projector comes with a new sound system and shows. Two board members, Andrew H. Appel and Roger W. Sandt, are spearheading the fund drive to make this possible. Also leading the way are Lancaster Neuroscience and Spine Associates in honor of Dr. Dan Good, Caroline S. Nunan, and Dan and Karen Good.