Planetarium Clark is located inside Gateway at the intersection of 400 West and 100 South in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The Clark Planetarium opened in April 2003, replacing the historic Hansen Planetarium under a grant from the Clark Foundation in collaboration with Salt Lake County.
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Hansen Dome Theater
This theater is the first "no-slit" digital dome planetarium in the United States. The dome is a 55-foot (16.8 m) hollow aluminum dome manufactured by Astro-tec Manufacturing Inc. The theater has 190 seats and is equipped with individual seating button controls. Designed around Evans & amp; Sutherland's Digistar planetary system, two super high-resolution projectors work together to integrate a smooth single video stream across the dome. What results are a completely new way to experience the universe, in 3 dimensions (without glasses) with resolution far beyond high definition video. The new system installed in 2011 can display resolutions of 4096 X 4096 and 60 frames per second.
Specially tuned 13,000 watt sound system with 5.1 surround sound and 21 speakers mounted behind the screen. The show in this half-ball theater covers a variety of space-related themes, ranging from full-fledged 3D production to up-to-date live events for family events to musical entertainment shows. Clark Planetarium Productions is one of the few informal science educational institutions with the resources to create and distribute their own fulldome animated content.
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Orbital ATK IMAX Theater
This planetarium features an IMAX-certified widescreen theater. The Orbital ATK IMAX Theater at Clark Planetarium emphasizes the programming of science and nature documentaries. The show features 3-D and 2-D movies. Major renovations in November 2010 modernized the theater with digital projectors, new screens, new seats, and new sound systems.
Production
The Clark Planetarium Production Department runs a 37-year tradition of the Hansen Planetarium by creating and distributing sophisticated content to planetariums around the world. The production group created its own digital dome cinema using a new 464-node rendering farm. The original full impressions made by the Clark Planetarium production department include:
- Perfect Small Planet - Modern solar tour (2012) in a 3-dimensional fulldome environment (ie 3-D without stereoscopic technology).
- Led Zeppelin - The most requested classic rock program (after Pink Floyd) in cinema theaters since the 1970s.
- Space Hijack Attack - The adventure of science fiction shows the search for a foreign body in our Milky Way galaxy, designed for all ages
- Gateway to the Stars - A live-narrative program about techniques for observing the night sky with eyes, binoculars and telescopes. Plays the first Saturday of every month, using the inner sky objects that are currently visible at that time.
- Alternative-X - A music entertainment program featuring a variety of alternative rock, progressive rock, and modern rock styles.
- Flights to the Moon: LRO and LCROSS - A mini-show about the latest NASA unmanned spacecraft to the moon, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Moon Crater Observation and Satellite Sensing.
- Extreme Planet - A tour of what the outer planets like Earth are, narrated by Renà ©  © Auberjonois
- Cartoon Rocket Secrets - Popular animated family events that visit our solar system objects
- Saturn: Heavenly Gem - Immersive journey to Saturn through the eyes of Cassini-Huygens space mission
- Underground Voice - Techno and Club music light show featuring full-dome animation, laser beam and light effects
- Rock on Demand - Classic Rock theme themed musical performances, user-controlled "Jukebox" choices
- Night Vision - Current events and hot topics from space and astronomy
- Dateline Mars - Productions told directly about the planet Mars and the latest images from spacecraft
- Black Holes - A 3D digital journey into a mystical and enigmatic Black Hole narrated by John de Lancie
- Holiday Music Magic - Live music light show
- The Ultimate Universe - The grand fulldome tour of the Universe, the Milky Way and our Solar System
Exhibition
The Clark Planetarium has 10,000 square feet (930 m 2 ) of free exhibits including the newly installed "Science on a Sphere", a computer animated ball by NOAA. Also unique is "Newton's Daydream," the most ambitious audio-kinetic sculpture ever made by artist George Rhoads. Other popular exhibits include the Foucault pendulum, Earth Globe, Meteorite, Telescope, and updated video from Hubble Space Telescope and NASA TV. Clark Planetarium is also one of the few institutions that have authentic moon rock samples of NASA's permanent loans. The stone is derived from Apollo 15 missions and is featured in a special exhibit showing the moon landing on Apollo and an astronaut video footage collecting samples of rock displayed. New exhibits are added regularly, including a rocket display by ATK Launch Systems of Utah, Solar Energy exhibition, and "Weight in Another World."
Education and public reach
The planetarium education department serves over 75,000 schoolchildren each year through field trips and science education programs throughout Utah state. The outreach program includes an auditorium program featuring some of the best interactive science demonstrations. In-depth visits to grade 6 focus on aspects of their astronomy curriculum, and star parties provide an opportunity to see first hand many of the celestial objects. Topics include electricity, Newton's laws of motion, moon phases, seasons, distances and scales, planets, solar systems, and other science interest topics.
See also
- Old Hansen Planetarium
External links
- Clark Planetarium official website
- Show Sales
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