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April 24, 2014 / News

CHIRON ⅡHYBRID into Nagasaki Science MuseumOut with the Old - In with the New

Nagasaki is a 400 year-old port city on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. For centuries, it was one of the principal cities where Japanese culture interacted with European and other Asian cultures. As such, it has always been a city that is curious, and eager for learning and new ideas.
The Nagasaki Science Museum now continues that eagerness for education with a total renovation of its planetarium. In March of 2014 the planetarium re-opened after removing an older, larger system from another company, and installing a new, smaller, brighter, state of the art GOTO CHIRON II HYBRID Planetarium™ system. This new projector uses extremely bright LED's to produce more, and smaller stars than ever before. In fact, the CHIRON II projects a Milky Way that is made up of 140,000,000 micro-stars!

Four 4K video projectors show dynamic, color, high resolution animations on the dome. The fulldome video system is synchronized with the motions of the CHIRON II, and is controlled by the famous, live or automated GOTO HYBRID control system. At Nagasaki, GOTO INC also provided new, more comfortable seats, new lighting and audio, and even a new "skin" for the dome screen. And since GOTO INC acted as the prime contractor, the job was completed quickly, on time, and on budget.

http://www.nagasaki-city.ed.jp/starship/