• Ultra Portable At 3.64″ x 4.12″ x 1.46″ and a mere 0.80 pounds, you’ll hardly notice it’s in your laptop case.
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Today was the last day that the Charles Hayden Planetarium’s Carl Zeiss projector was used at the Museum of Science in Boston.

It has been here since 1970, though it itself replaced the museum’s original projector from ten years earlier.

Tomorrow, this projector gets decommissioned, dismantled, and shipped to another museum in Colorado.

I remember going to see presentations with it as a kid in the early 1980s, and maybe even earlier than that. (I also remember seeing laser shows to Pink Floyd albums as a teenager in the 1990s, but I’m not sure if the projector has anything to do with the laser shows.)

The new projector is going to be an egg-shaped Zeiss Starmaster, instead of the "barbell" shaped version that we had here.

It looks like it is going to have some impressive capabilities — digital projection via fiber optic links of color-accurate objects, yadda yadda yadda — but I’ll probably always miss this one, and will picture a giant dumbbell-shaped contraption in the middle of the room whenever I think of what a planetarium is "supposed" to look like.

So it goes.

Interesting detail, which completely doesn’t come across in my photos here: the projector is actually blue, similar to many of the ones on display at the Planetarium Museum web site.

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As for these photos:

We lucked out on making it in to a show on the last day. I’d read in December that the planetarium was to close for renovations, but I wasn’t sure when the last day would be, and I didn’t know that the projector was going away in the process. More to the point, by January I’d forgotten about the renovations to begin with.

We just happened to decide to go to the museum that day, and we just happened to decide to use the planetarium passes that we’d bought almost a year ago. We only found out once the show started that this was to be the last day the theatre would be open before closing for a year, and that the projector was getting shipped to another museum in Colorado. If the museum presenter said the name, I didn’t catch it.

If I’d realized 5 minutes earlier that this was it, I’d have set the camera to night photography mode & tried to get some pictures of the show. But it was on Automatic, and wouldn’t lock an exposure on the ceiling in the dark, and I didn’t want to be fumbling with the controls (and the bright LCD screen on the back) while the show was underway.

Oh well.

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Seen on:

* Universal Hub: The planetarium won’t be the same without it
* @BostonMArss
* @BostonDailyNews
* Chris Devers’s linkblog thingy

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Projector People shootout of our most popular home theater projectors.

Note : the Sanyo PLV-Z700 (far left) and the Epson Home Cinema 6100 (far right) have lower contrast ratios than the three center home theater projectors. Notice the "black bars" above and below the images to further determine the projectors ability to produce deep, rich black colors.

Comparing the (left to right) Sanyo PLV-Z700, Sanyo PLV-Z3000, Panasonic PT-AE3000U, Epson Home Cinema 6500 UB, and Epson Home Cinema 6100.

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Answer by Golfer
The Optoma HD65 is around $ 1,000 and is a great budget projector. There are more at http://www.projectorcentral.com/home-theater-multimedia-projectors.htm
and they have reviews on all the home theater projectors

PS the Sony BRAVIA VPL-AW10 is also very good

Another P.S. On the surround sound system, don’t waste $ on an htib. Wait if you have to and get component system. The htibs don’t last because one part goes wrong (like the dvd player breaks) and you end up either tossing it or rigging the unit so you can use the speakers. Look into Onkyo receivers and good quality speakers.

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Best answer:

Answer by Paul
Sears Warehouse/Repair Center. Give them the model number and they can order one for you.

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