Carl Zeiss Press Release: powerdome® Systems

powerdome® Systems

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	JENA/Germany, PEORIA/IL/USA, FORT WORTH/Texas/USA, 22.06.2007. The planetariums of the Lakeview Museum in Peoria, Illinois and the Museum of Science and History in Fort Worth, Texas are receiving powerdome® projectors from Carl Zeiss that enable both opto-mechanical and digital projection. The contracts for the delivery of the systems were recently signed. Although powerdome® consists of two technologically different and independent projection systems, Carl Zeiss has combined the technology into one unit with intelligent control. At the end of 2007 the powerdome® system for Peoria is initially being installed in the existing planetarium dome before being transferred to its final location in a new Science Center. The new and larger planetarium will be a major attraction in the center of Peoria, a city with about 100,000 inhabitants. To date, more than one million people have visited the planetarium in the Lakeview Museum. The powerdome® planetarium in Fort Worth will also be installed in a new Museum of Science and History. The Noble Planetarium here will be given a new home in the new museum complex. The package delivered by Carl Zeiss includes not only the digital and opto-mechanical projection technology, but also the Uniview software package that guides the audience into cosmic space in three dimensions. A major part of this program was developed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York in association with NASA and expanded by the Swedish firm SCISS into a type of display suitable for dome projection. On a non-stop journey through space, the planetarium visitors leave the Earth, roam through the solar system, exit our stellar system and the Milky Way, and enter galactic space before the structure of the universe as a whole emerges before their very eyes. This is a visual experienced never offered before. A gradual change in the global planetarium landscape has been taking place since the beginning of the 21st century. Among the many different facets of this development, one is particularly evident: planetariums are offering a panoramic view of the world. This is new – the view is not limited to the sky and the stars, but extends from the subatomic range, underwater worlds and futuristic moon colonies to the very limits of the universe. Here, the opto-mechanical projection of a radiant star-filled sky is supplemented with digital projection. This replaces not only slide projection, but also offers more dynamism, better visualization and therefore also an enhanced understanding of nature, science and culture in planetarium shows. Image Download (JPG, 1,119 kB) The powerdome® planetarium system from Carl Zeiss comprising the ZKP 4 opto-mechanical and digital Spacegate system Image Download (JPG, 893 kB) A model of the new museum complex of Fort Worth/Texas (USA) Image source: Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Gudrun Vogel Communications Phone: +49 3641 64-2770 Fax: +49 3641 64-2941 E-Mail: g.vogel@zeiss.de Number: 107/07 PL Number of Words: 483 Number of Characters: 3580

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