East Stroudsburg University is pleased to announce the installation of a new Digistar 7 Fulldome Planetarium System in McMunn Planetarium. The purchase of the new equipment was made possible by a $205,700 grant from the R. Dale and Frances M. Hughes Foundation, based in Stroudsburg, Pa. The Digistar 7 projection system will be used to improve performance in academic courses in addition to supporting K-12 group visits, community programming, and institutional recruitment.<\/p>\n
The Digistar 7 replaces the planetarium\u2019s original non-HD resolutions system that was installed when the planetarium opened in 2008.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new projector provides our students with an immersive experience of not only the sky as seen from Earth, but lets them visualize the solar system, galaxy and universe from different locations within,\u201d\u00a0said David Buckley, Ph.D., professor of physics. \u201cIt’s a game changer in terms of the quality of astronomy education we can provide at ESU.\u201d<\/p>\n
Securing the funding for the new equipment was made in collaboration with the ESU Foundation. The R. Dale and Frances M. Hughes Foundation has been a longtime supporter of the ESU Foundation, whose awarded grants have greatly impacted ESU and its students.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very grateful for the R. Dale and Frances M. Hughes Foundation\u2019s generous support throughout the years,\u201d said Rich Santoro, ESU Foundation executive director. \u201cTheir commitment to ESU and the surrounding community is truly an inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n
The McMunn Planetarium is housed in ESU\u2019s Warren E. \u201955 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center, and is named in honor of ESU supporters Charles A. \u201cTony\u201d \u201969 and Patricia Lythgoe \u201968 McMunn. The Schisler Museum of Wildlife & Natural History, made possible by the generosity of Arthur R. \u201962 and Fannie A. (Greene) \u201962 Schisler, is located in the same space. Entry to both the museum and planetarium are included in one ticket.<\/p>\n
\u201cESU\u2019s Schisler Museum and McMunn Planetarium have always been a hidden treasure right here in the Pocono Mountains region,\u201d said Catherine Klingler, museum and planetarium events manager. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait for schools, groups, and the community to come in and experience this amazing new technology with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each year, over 9,000 students, K-12 school groups, tourists, community, and the general public have attended the planetarium\u2019s full-dome video presentations on topics like the solar system, stars, galaxies and black holes.<\/p>\n
The museum and planetarium are open to the general public on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The facilities are open to groups Tuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Customized tours are available for all ages.<\/p>\n
For additional information about the museum and planetarium, please visit esu.edu\/museum<\/a>. To book a group visit, contact 570-422-2705 or by email at smcurator@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESU is pleased to announce the installation of a new Digistar 7 Fulldome Planetarium System in McMunn Planetarium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":22238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22247,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22233\/revisions\/22247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}