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A Sega Homestar home planetarium projector. Megastar (メガスター, Megasutā) is a series of planetarium projectors which was recorded in Guinness World Records [1] in 2004 as the planetarium projector that can project the most number of stars in the world.
A Zeiss Universarium Mark IX starball projector. A planetarium projector, also known as a star projector, is a device used to project images of celestial objects onto the dome in a planetarium. Modern planetarium projectors were first designed and built by the Carl Zeiss Jena company in Germany between 1923 and 1925, and have since grown more ...
Digistar is the first computer graphics-based planetarium projection and content system.It was designed by Evans & Sutherland and released in 1983. The technology originally focused on accurate and high quality display of stars, including for the first time showing stars from points of view other than Earth's surface, travelling through the stars, and accurately showing celestial bodies from ...
Beginning with Mark VII, Zeiss projectors adopted a new, egg-shaped design. The Mark IX Universarium is currently the most advanced model. This example was installed in 2006 at The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Closeup of a lens bearing sphere of the Zeiss Mark IV planetarium projector on display at the Nehru Planetarium in Mumbai, India.
Such systems are generally cheaper than traditional planetarium projectors and fish-eye lens projectors and for that reason are used in budget and home planetarium setups where projection quality is less important. [citation needed] Various companies which build and sell digital planetarium systems use Stellarium, such as e-Planetarium.
Takayuki Ohira (大平 貴之, Ōhira Takayuki, born March 11, 1970) is a Japanese engineer and the creator of the Megastar, a planetarium projector which was recorded in Guinness World Records as the planetarium projector that can project the highest number of stars in the world. [1] [2] [3] Homestar Flux: home planetarium.