Since its opening, and until recent years, our Zeiss Model VIa optical planetarium projector has brought the wonder of the night sky to countless visitors. The Zeiss Company no longer services the ...

No one could accuse the Zeiss of being a rebel, but it's rubbed shoulders with the best of them. Make that the very best, because the rebel that once shared space with the projector didn't have a ...

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The high-tech device that will give New Yorkers the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets is manufactured by the same firm that made the original Hayden Planetarium projector: the Carl Zeiss Co. of ...

The lights of Adler Planetarium’s powerful, 2 1/2-ton 17 1/2-foot-tall Zeiss projector, a technological wonder of the 1970s that has been darkened since January, will illuminate a new show inside the ...

So you think that those 30,000:1 contrast ratio projectors announced at CEDIA ’08 were impressive; this Carl Zeiss planetarium projector puts ’em to shame. The powerdomeVELVET employs a 4k DLP ...

After decades of studying outer space, the Adler Planetarium has been sucked into the orbit of presidential politics. Republican nominee John McCain criticized Democratic nominee Barack Obama in ...

Who doesn’t love a good tour of the Universe? And while not every planetaruim can own a state-of-the-art digital system, these 16 analog star displays from our friends at Oobject are simply stunning.

Is Texas Instrument cooking up some DLP panels beyond imagination and no one knows about it? I ran across Zeiss website and saw this – A Powerdom VELVET projector with unheard of Contrast 2,500,000 : ...