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Technical
Digital system Evans_and_Sutherland : Cosm CX LED dome
Software: Digistar 2025
Video system no projectors : (Led dome)
Dome: Cosm CX LED dome
Facilities
Observatory at Redfield campus (18600 Wedge Parkway, South Reno)
Gift Shop Science store
Operation
History
- November 15, 1963: 9.1m/70s/Spitz A3P ($330,000 building only)
- 1979: Viewlex Minolta S-IIB
- 1994: 70mm/8p (Elumenati)
- 2006: Spitz SciDome
- 2008: Eluminati Geodome Evolver
- 2013: 50th anniversary, painting the sun on the external dome (Erik Burke)
- 2023: Digistar 7
- when?: $35 million gift from the George W. Gillemot Foundation
- February 2026: closed planned for renovation: LED Dome 6K, HVAC system, Lobby
- Fall 2026: reopening planned
Last major evolution: 2026: Led dome
Comments
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Latitude: 39°32'45" N -
Longitude: 119°49'09" W -
Altitude: 1410m
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