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Learning Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce an all-in-one digital planetarium projection system for use in portable and small fixed domes. Now with best-in-class contrast and resolution, Digital STARLAB produces a truly breathtaking and realistic sky! Digital STARLAB It's Out of This World! |
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Digital STARLAB is a compact, manually-operated, user-friendly planetarium projection system that was designed to produce the best quality starfield images of any projection system in its price range for portable and small fixed domes. Digital STARLAB features a custom fisheye lens (patent pending) capable of depicting an accurate, high-contrast (12,000:1), simulated night sky with the capacity to explore a multitude of motions and displays eliminating the need for additional slide projectors, video projectors, sound systems or computers. Covering a full 180º on the dome, the small bright stars remain spherical right down to the horizon. Its superior contrast creates a truly black background making the star images even more realistic. There are no cutouts or blind spots along the horizon. The projector is compact and lightweight and is therefore, easily transported and/or stored. Using a laptop interface, powered by a customized version of the renowned Starry Night™ software from Imaginova called Starry Night Small Dome™, users can choose from a set of 12 pre-scripted, national standards-based lessons or two full curriculum modules that are included with the system. The first curriculum module is based on Astronomy of the Americas from Volume 11 of the Planetarium Activities for Student Success that explores five Native American cultures and their knowledge and beliefs about solar and lunar astronomy. The second module, Orders of Magnitude, is based on the Powers of 10 — a valuable tool for teaching and understanding the universe through the concept of scale — useful for studying earth science, math and more. Additional lessons and full curriculum modules based on Learning Technologies' existing teacher-created lesson, will be available on a ongoing basis. In keeping with the philosophy of existing products from Learning Technologies, Digital STARLAB encourages interactivity and hands-on, minds-on learning through its curriculum, activities and programs. This exciting new digital planetarium system for STARLAB and other portable and small fixed domes has the capacity to go beyond our solar system to investigate stars, galaxies, deep sky objects and cultural constellations. Professionally-produced, interactive educational units and lessons present dynamic, remarkably realistic interdisciplinary programs to large numbers of students. Demonstrations of this new digital projection system will be given at upcoming conferences including NSTA, International Planetarium Association Conference (IPS), Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) and others. Digital STARLAB was developed through a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. Projection Specifications
Projection System Features
Starry Night Small Dome™ Software Highlights
Digital STARLAB Projection System Includes
Questions about Digital STARLAB? Contact Reed Varian at 1-800-704-4338 (U.S. & Canada) or 330-488-0801 for sales or demonstration-related questions or Sean Figueroa at 800-537-8703 (U.S. & Canada) or 617-628-1459 for technical questions. |
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“We can see the sky in our Digital STARLAB before a rare clear night in the observatory, resulting in better student preparation. Consequently, the Digital STARLAB makes the students’ observatory time more valuable. . . . Ease of use of the Digital STARLAB is unparalleled for me and my students, yet offers the complexities to do professional work. I already have each of the seasons programmed to come up for our location. My students are from all over the world and they can easily see the reason why we are experiencing the season we are in. . . . Digital STARLAB allows us to show time-dependent events such as Earth’s precession, the seasons, or even what it is like to be on another world. Some of these things we could never see in a lifetime and the seasons we can not observe in one school year. . . .[It] makes the lessons much more real than other astronomy teaching methods. You get to see the outcome as if you were there, but in a shorter time span.”
— John A. Blackwell, Director, Grainger Observatory and Astronomy Teacher
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
“I keep getting excellent reports on the Digital STARLAB. We are using it with the public, with visiting school groups, with private events, and with ongong education classes . . . Enormous potential here.”
— Alan Friedman, Director,
New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
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