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Planetarium Roof Repairs Underway
In the years leading up to the renovation of the OSU Planetarium, we have been plagued by an increasingly leaky roof. This led to water damage on the old projection dome and the control…
The Room is Cleared
The next milestone in the OSU Planetarium renovation has been achieved with the removal of the chairs and old floor tiles. We've also taken down all the old pictures.
All that…

Sssh: Astronomers at Work
Working the System
Astronomy graduate students Kate Grier and Calen Henderson are jazzed by what they learned this month at the intensive week-long Spitz Summer Institute,…
The Spitz SciDome XD Production Computers Have Arrived
Only July 25 we took delivery of the production computers for the Spitz SciDome XD system. The production system is a pair of computers that will be used for creating new planetarium shows…

The Spitz A3P has left the building...
The first major step in the renovation of the OSU Planetarium began today with the removal of the Spitz A3P star ball projector.
A team from Ash Enterprises carefully disassembled the…

OSU Donating its Spitz A3P to Perkins Observatory
In June 2012, OSU will begin a major renovation of the OSU Planetarium located in Smith Laboratory. Among other things, we will be retiring our 1965-vintage Spitz A3P star projector and replacing…