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Planetarium
Projector
An Honors Project by:
Natalie Droeske, Austin Kuchenbecker, Audrey Miller, Celia DaSilva &
Jacob Till
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Kristen Thompson
The Heitkamp Planetarium’s History
Digitarium
Zeiss Kappa Fixed
Starmaster: for $66,000:
Too Expensive Runner-Up,
($500,000) offer wasn’t
good enough
Digitarium
Epsilon Fixed
for $34,000:
Discontinued
Model
Finally...Emerald
Gold-PLUS Fixed
Projector for $69,200
An Increase from $34,000 to $69,200??
❖ The Emerald-GOLD-PLUS-FIXED
Projector is on its way and will arrive in
January!
❖ Decommissioning of the current
projector will begin in December
❖ How will we make up the difference in
cost?
➢ Continued fundraising
➢ Possible Student Union funding
➢ More t-shirt sales
(Do you have your Heitkamp Planetarium t-shirt yet??)
Acknowledgements