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The Digital Starlab
What is it, and why do I want one?
What is a Starlab?
The Starlab is a portable planetarium system. It is comprised of a lightproof dome, a projector, and teaching content.
The Starlab is similar to full scale planetariums at museums, except it can be transported from one school to another.
The Starlab can accommodate 30 students with a standard dome, and 55 students with a giant dome.
The whole system fits in two cases and a duffel bag, and sets up in about 20 minutes.
How does the projection work?
The Digital Starlab uses a professional quality DLP digital projector.
This projector has a resolution of 1200 pixels, which exceeds high definition.
The images are routed through a special fish eye lens that stretches the image across the entire dome.
This lens is developed for and exclusive to the Digital Starlab.
What sort of things can I project?
The Digital Starlab is powered by Starry Night, a world class planetarium software.
The software will display and track any object within 500 million light years of the sun. This gives almost limitless options.
Common projections are: the planets, solar system, celestial navigation, constellations, star motion, seasons, moon phases, and many many more.
With all these options and 15 built in lessons, there is no excuse not to use your Digital Starlab.
What about the dome?
The dome is made out of a strong fabric which is then stitched together.
Six layers of a special lightproof coating are bonded to this fabric. This makes the fabric opaque and provides a good projection surface.
The dome collapses to fit inside a duffel bag, but can hold up to 30 students when inflated.
The Digital Dome uses a walk in entry.
That all sounds good, but how does the school benefit?
Most students have never seen a night sky that isn’t destroyed by light pollution.
Scientific literacy today is appallingly low among American students. There is nothing like a visit to the planetarium to spark students’ interest in science.
Unfortunately, field trips are becoming increasingly rare. Even if your city has a planetarium, finding the time and money to bring students there is a real headache.
When you factor in everything, it can cost $1,000 to bring 50 students to a local planetarium. If you have 250 eligible students, you could spend more that $5,000 a year just on field trips!
The Digital Starlab costs around $50,000. While this is expensive, consider the lifespan of the system. When you factor in that the system will last for 50,000 visitors, you can see the Starlab ends up being significantly cheaper than field trips.
I’m Intrigued. Where can I get more information?
Visit our website, www.starlab.com Give us a call at 904-225-5558 Email us at [email protected]
Helmut Albrecht, Starlab salesBring them one small step closer
