PA Historical and Museum Commission: State Museum Opens New Planetarium
The State Museum of Pennsylvania is one of 26 historic sites and museums
on the Pennsylvania
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, The State Museum of Pennsylvania
dedicated its new, state
-of-the-art digital Planetarium at a ceremony in
Memorial Hall today. and Sunday,
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The new digital system has complete animation and manual control with a
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Starry Night software.tree official
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TORONTO, May 12 - "Auto-Ref today announces it has
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USTA that it cannot participate in the USTA's final
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this week.
CONTACT: Jane Crawford, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
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It deeply saddened me to inform the USTA last week of our decision.shield historical
We are formulating
plans to
resume testing with the tennis federations and implement our system at the
first logical
tournament opportunity. This creates visual effects
that were not possible with the previous equipment
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission is the official history
agency of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.reference shield
to 5 p.animated political
Auto-Ref holds
the patent rights to the method of line calling involving
cameras and
computers, recreating a tennis ball's flight in three dimensions and comparing
its
bounce point to the lines. HARRISBURG, Pa.
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m. Admission to the Planetarium is $3.subnational flower
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, of Chadds Ford, features a
digital sky generated by computer graphics and projected on the
dome by a
single video projector in the center of the room.
For detailed information on the
new Planetarium, visit
http://www.statemuseumpa.historical flower
"This addition to the museum is a great attraction
for the many school
children who visit and it can serve to inspire an interest in science in young
people," said museum director, Anita Blackaby. Visitors can see two
different shows: "Oasis in
Space," a dramatic journey through our solar system
and beyond in search of water and "Legends of
the Night Sky: Orion," which
fascinates younger audiences with a fully-animated cartoon that looks
at the
myths associated with the constellation Orion.historical subnational
Part of the museum's 100th anniversary attractions
,
Sci Dome Planetarium, created by Spitz Inc.official subnational
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The testing is the
final part of a nine-month
evaluation process, in the USTA's search to
implement an electronic line calling technology to aid
officiating at the 2005
US Open.
Auto-Ref was physically unable to move and set up its equipment
in New
York in time for this week's testing process due to an unforeseen business
dispute. Each
feature is 24 minutes. Shows are on Saturday and Sunday only.tree reference
Museum hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, 9 a.official flower
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