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Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Museum


USA , MICHIGAN , KALAMAZOO
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Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College


Type: Museum
Opened in 1996

Address: 230 North Rose Street - Kalamazoo, MI 49007
Country: USA
Email: museumstaff@kvcc.edu
Phone: +1 269-373-7990

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

Team
Mark Reed, Steve Crawford







109 seats









Tilt 10°

Dome of  15.2m




Technical
Digital system Evans_and_Sutherland : Digistar
Software: Digistar 7
Video system JVC : DLA-SH7NLG
Video Lens: 1+1 cove
Meridian resolution 4.0 K
Sound 5.1
Cove light: ChromaCove

Facilities

Operation

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

Comments


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