Science

Nation’s Oldest Planetarium Now Has World’s Most Baller Digital Theatre

Old and busted: Grainger Sky Theater at Chicago’s Adler Planetaruim’s 1970s Zeiss relic analogue star projector. New hotness: $US14 million system making it the world’s highest resolution digital theatre. Get ready to trip balls at your next planetarium show.


April 27, 2011
News

8000 Pixel By 8000 Pixel Big-Ass Screen Coming To Chicago

The Adler Planetarium just renovated the Grainger Sky Theater with a big honking screen. The display will mimic being in space with a 8000 by 8000 pixel screen that’s supposed to deliver “the largest single seamless digital image in the world”. For reference, typical movie screens ‘only’ spit out 2000 by 4000 pixel images.