Digistar Support

Evans & Sutherland provides the following support options for Digistar:

• Operation & Hardware Training
• Webinar Access
• Telephone/Email Support
• Online Service and Support

About Digistar

The World's First Digital Star Projector

Evans & Sutherland introduced Digistar^® in the early 1980s. Up to then, planetariums used mechanical star projectors for their view of the night sky. Digistar introduced the ability to not only view the night sky from any location on Earth, but to travel through the Solar System and to the stars beyond.

The calligraphic display of Digistar meant it could create perfectly smooth lines and round dots. Digistar also featured sophisticated focus adjustments that allowed the realistic projection of nebulous objects such as the Milky Way. Images were created by moving an electron beam over the phosphor-coated face of a "hyper-brilliant" cathode ray tube. Updated 60 times each second, the images were projected through a fisheye lens onto the planetarium dome.

Digistar offered many industry-first features:

• Simulate time changing at any rate
• Accurately fly through 3D space - travel among the stars
• Adjustable depth-cueing to enhance the illusion of depth and distance
• View the Solar System and planetary motions from any distance and perspective
• Display dynamic stellar proper motion
• Demonstrate parallax
• Visualize 3D models - explore a variety of science & math topics
• Digistar users formed the Digistar Users Group and established a shared library of user-developed models and sequences

Digistar also featured a programmable "button box" to launch sequences and a two-button joystick.