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STAR PROJECTOR
The CANOPUS projector is the product of an extensive design, development, and construction.
The result is an advanced, effective, and complete portable planetarium offering excellent benefits.
  
CHARACTERISTICS
- It has two hemisphere platforms with synchronous movement.
- It operates with 110/220 volts and a totally integrated electronic circuit.
- It has a 12 volt diurnal movement motor to simulation terrestrial rotation - 1 turn every 5 minutes.
- It has brightness controls for stars, environmental lights, and the Milky Way.
- The stars are projected through pin holes with halogen micro bulbs.
- It has a graduated circle for terrestrial latitude and right ascension.
- It projects 2,750 stars down to magnitude 5.45; 3,480 down to mag. 5.70; and 4,875 down to mag. 6.00 (see projection cylinders, characteristics)
- It displays 13 naked eye objects: galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, and both Magellanic clouds.
- Six star colors.
- The Milky Way independent from the stars.
- Hand - held constellation projector with 12 mythological figures.
- The 5 naked eye planets.
- The Sun and the Moon with its phases.
- A comet to be placed anywhere on the dome.
- A wooden cabinet covered outside with Cuerina (a leather simulated cloth) and inside with cloth similar to suede. Its borders and edges are protected.
- It measures 25 x 27 x 21 inches and weighs 43 pounds.
HANDHELD CONSTELLATION PROJECTOR
The CANOPUS projector comes with a manual constellation projector. It is similar to a flashlight that uses special slides with 12 figures: Orion, Lepus, Taurus, Canis Major, Gemini, Scorpius, Cygnus,
Crux, Leo, Hercules, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor.
The images are projected on the star field by the hand projector with its power source on the control panel
Eight additional constellations may be purchased:
Sagittarius, Libra, Cassiopeia, Cancer, Draco, Corona Australis, Cepheus, and Canis Minor.
 
ATTACHED PROJECTIONS
The CANOPUS projector incorporates independent projections of the 5 naked eye planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. They are seen as viewed through a
telescope: Venus with its phases, Mars with its polar caps, Jupiter with its cloud belts and Great Red Spot, and Saturn with its rings.
The Sun and the Moon are projected phases.
A comet can be projected any place on the dome.
These views are done with small magnetic slides installed in the projector that are projected near the celestial equator.
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- Astronomical Planetarium
Buenos Aires - Argentina |
