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Planetarium Sheet

Kalamazoo Valley Museum

USA - KALAMAZOO - MICHIGAN

Type: Museum

Address: 230 North Rose Street - Kalamazoo, MI 49007
Country: USA

Latitude: 42°17'35" N - Longitude: 85°35'00" W - Altitude: 239m

Website: https://kalamazoomuseum.org/planetarium/

Email: museumstaff@kvcc.edu
Phone: +1 269-373-7990

Director or contact: Mark Reed, Steve Crawford

Opened in 1996

Dome of 15.2m
Capacity of 109 seats
Oriented Yes
Tilt 10°

Digital system Evans_and_Sutherland : Digistar 6

Video system JVC : DLA-SH7NLG (1+1 face to face)

Meridian resolution 4.0 K
Sound 5.1
Cove light: ChromaCove

History: 1959: 9.14m/86s/Spitz A2 (at Kalamazoo Public Library) - 1968: Spitz A4 - 1996: Moved (new building), Digistar II, Spice - 2009: Digistar 4 ($1.3 million) - Nov. 2016: Digistar 6, lighting, JVC - November 2021: GLPA

Last major evolution: 2016: projectors

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