Welcome to Digitalis.
We are the leading provider of digital planetarium systems for
the portable and small fixed dome market.
Our innovations are grounded upon a unique blend of technical expertise and real-world astronomy education experience.
Our goal is to offer the most cost effective, easy to use, and practical astronomy education tools.
Our breakthrough Digitarium Alpha planetarium projector, introduced in 2003,
was the first truly affordable digital planetarium system. The
newer Digitarium Alpha 2,
Digitarium Alpha 2+, and
Digitarium Gamma models
continue in this mold,
offering what we believe are the best value on the market for astronomy education in a
small or medium sized dome.
The flexibility of digital projection enables educators to
cover a much broader and deeper range of topics, a vast improvement over portable analog (pinhole) projectors.
Think of the difference between using a slide projector and a computer.
Our Digitarium systems stand apart from other digital planetarium systems in a number of critical areas:
- Best usability:
The easiest interface to learn and use is our unique handheld, backlit remote
control. Intuitive icons label each button.
With no separate control computer required, educators are liberated from complex software interfaces,
aren't tethered to the projector, don't need to block audience sight lines,
and need only a fraction of the setup time. Spend more
time focused on your students rather than your system.
- Lowest training costs: Due to its excellent usability, no special operator training is required other than
reading how to set up and put away the system. Our free lesson plans can get you started teaching right away.
- Fast setup/takedown time: With our portable system, from the moment you open the transit case until
the sky is projected on the dome takes only a couple of minutes. Takedown requires about
the same amount of time. Watch how easy it is to set up.
- Best value:
We designed from the start for higher volume, lower cost, and lower overhead production and distribution
than our competitors
in order to put our tools within reach of most educational institutions.
Even at an affordable price, we believe it matches or outperforms many more expensive models
on the most important criteria for practical astronomy education.
We invite you to compare competing products in person and see this value for yourself.
- The market leader.
You don't have to take our word that we have the best portable planetarium
for astronomy educators.
Our Digitarium systems are the best selling small dome digital planetarium
systems in the world. With the first model introduced in late
2003, we now have users across five continents.
See our products page for detailed information about our products.
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What's New
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See the new high resolution Digitarium Gamma demonstrated at:
MAPS conference, May 15-16, Schenectady, NY.
AAS/ASP joint meeting,
June 1-5, St. Louis, MO.
Other opportunities
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Technical support and software updates over the Internet
are now officially FREE for the life of your system. Imagine a planetarium
system with no service contracts!
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We recently launched an exclusive Digitalis Community website for
our customers. It's never been easier to share content, scripts,
education resources, or just communicate with other Digitarium educators
around the world.
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Did you know you can spread your payments out over multiple
budget years with our lease to own program?
Contact us for details. US customers only,
with credit approval.
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