The Pitless Planetarium - More Seats, Better Seats

One of the great ironies of the planetarium venue has always been that the ideal location to view the projected sky for accuracy is the center of the dome, but those seats are normally taken up by the planetarium instrument. This not only compromises the best viewing position but also reduces the overall seat count for those ever critical high traffic times. The digital revolution offers a solution to this problem pioneered by Sky-Skan.
	For several years now multiple projector edge-blended video has been a common discipline in the flat screen A/V industry. There the geometry conforms to the ideal parameters for video projection making the task of edge-blending much easier. Sky-Skan pioneered the technology for correcting the distortion inherent in projecting images on a spherical surface with it's DigiDome edge-blended full dome slide system and applied this knowledge to the video problem. The result: a seamless full dome video system that places all the projectors around the base ring of the dome. The world's first pitless planetarium.
Today this innovation is widely implemented by Sky-Skan and others but only Sky-Skan has continued to drive the technology to new levels. Through a partnership with the premier planetarium and optical systems manufacturer, Zeiss, Sky-Skan today offers pitless projection systems based on the Zeiss ADLIP laser technology which virtually eliminates the alignment maintenance issues associated with edge blended video. With stable even light and color distribution over the entire picture area, SkyVision systems employing the ADLIP technology are truly seamless with any program material.