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Happy 100th Birthday to the National Park Service
100 years ago in 1916, congress formed the National Park Service within the U.S. Department of the Interior to administer the 39 national parks and monuments that had been designated starting in the…
The OSU Planetarium has a New Name!
At their April 10 meeting, the Ohio State University Board of Trustees in recognition of contributions to the College of Arts and Sciences by Gerald and Ann Newsom and David and Sheryl Price,…
Welcome Our New Planetarium Director, Dr. Wayne Schlingman.
Wayne M. Schlingman, the new director of the Ohio State Planetarium, has a room with an enviable view with seats he will never have trouble filling. And he's ready to start taking people out of…
Spitz SciDome XD Projector has First Light!
After nearly two weeks of integration and testing, our new Spitz SciDome XD digial projector system was fired up and achieved "first light" inside the newly renovated OSU Planetarium.
This…
New Planetarium Seating!
The end of the renovation is in sight. The SciDome XD projector has arrived and is being installed, and on 2013 Sept 3 and 4, a crew led by Eric Melenbrink of Ash Enterprises (a sub-…
The Dome is Done!
The crew from Spitz Inc. put the last rivets into our new NanoSeam dome on Saturday, July 27, finally enclosing the space that for nearly a year has been a big, empty concrete chamber.
OSU…
Dome Screen Installation in Progress
After successfully raising, leveling, and anchoring the dome support framework into place, the next step is to install the screen panels on the dome.
Each panel is a compoundly-curved…
Dome Raising Day
This morning the dome crew from Spitz successfully raised the framework for the new projection dome into place.
After being fully assembled on the floor by the end of last week, a set of…
The New Dome Arrives!
The work preparing the chamber was completed on July 3, and first thing Monday morning on July 8 after the long 4th of July holiday a crew from Spitz arrived with a truckload of parts for the new…