Sep2024
The historic Howard B. Owens Science Center located in Lanham, MD, USA selected the Orpheus Hybrid and its installation has been completed. Both our customers and us are happy! Many visitors will enjoy the beautiful starry sky and wonderful presentations by the hybrid system of Orpheus and E&S's Digistar system.
Sep2024
Love’s Planetarium, located in the Adventure District of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is a popular science museum visited by 4,000 people every week. GOTO's Orpheus was installed in Loves Planetarium's 15m dome and 10-degree tilt screen, delivered as a hybrid system with E&S' Digistar, and opened in September 2024. This is the second Orpheus hybrid system installed in a large science museum in the United States.
July 202022
On July 1, 2022, the LWL Museum of Natural History with Planetarium, located in Munster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, reopened with the addition of the GOTO Orpheus hybrid planetarium projector beginning a new era in its long history. Orpheus was thoroughly evaluated for its accuracy, and for the realistic and beautiful starry sky produced by GOTO’s technology. "The Orpheus star projector creates a high-quality starry sky and has an amazing affinity with digital systems," said Dr. Björn Voss, the Planetarium’s director. The opening ceremony brought together planetarium officials from all over Germany to celebrate the innovative addition to the museum's planetarium. The hybrid system, comprising GOTO’s Orpheus and Digistar 7 from Evans & Sutherland, is used to project live presentations, scientific visualizations, and pre-produced planetarium programs. The planetarium reopened to the general public on July 2nd.
↓ Click here for Dr. Bjorn Voss comment video https://www.goto.co.jp/english/news/20220720/
↓ Click here for a 360 image that can be freely operated with the mouseDec. 242021
First ORPHEUS Hybrid in Hokkaido.
DENZAI Environmental Science Museum (the former Youth Science Museum) in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan has chosen ORPHEUS Hybrid as their third planetarium. This Planetarium is a science museum that was rebuilt on the same site along with the adjacent library. In addition to introducing the joy of environmental learning and manufacturing, the planetarium has been expanded to a dome diameter of 12m with the concept of an exchange base where multiple generations gather. The "Orpheus Hybrid" was selected as a system that can project a variety of images, not just the starry sky. ↓ Click here for a 360 image that can be freely operated with the mouseJuly 182021
First GOTO ORPHEUS HYBRID Planetarium system in China.
The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, which was built as the world’s largest astronomical facility with a site area of about 58,600 square meters and a construction area of about 38,000 square meters, was opened to the public on July 18, 2021 in Shanghai, China. GOTO INC has delivered the ORPHEUS HYBRID Planetarium system to this state-of-the-art Museum’s 17m horizontal planetarium dome. E & S’s Digistar 7 is used as a hybrid digital system. There are no fixed seats in the dome, and it has a unique design that imitates a park. Inside the museum, there is a 23m digital theater and valuable and abundant state-of-the-art exhibits to entertain visitors.