Dreaming of the stars: Observatory dome returns to UMD as part of larger plan MOOSE LAKE, Minn. -- An observatory dome is a curious machine -- one that appears static but is dynamic when put to ...

The South Florida Science Center recently added a new ten-inch telescope and turned to [Andres Paris] and his brother to replace the hand-cranked dome door system. They turned to an Arduino along w… ...

The University of Washington astronomy department is readying a traveling planetarium to take to schools for outreach — and collaboration — in Seattle and beyond. It may look like a carnival ...

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The portable planetarium will be used for astronomy classes and extending the college’s outreach to K-12 schools.

The dome, which had been part of the Round Hill Observatory, privately owned by Greenwich resident Ted Schimenti, is 10 feet in diameter and came with “state of the art equatorial mount and ...

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To help make up for the frozen dome, event organizers streamed a live broadcast of the lunar eclipse from Los Angeles and set up a portable telescope outside the observatory for people who were ...

The dome for Siena College's new observatory is lifted onto the roof of Roger Bacon Hall on Monday, July 2, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. The structure is scheduled for completion in August, and will ...

Workers atop Griffith Observatory removed most of the 489 copper panels from the main dome this week as part of an $83-million construction project, which is about 20% complete. The removal makes ...

The astronomical society’s current dome is accessible by a long flight of wooden steps, leading viewers 30 feet up. A fundraiser Wednesday will determine how high the new dome’s platform will be.