Digitarium® Delta 2 Digital Planetarium System
Product Overview
The Digitarium® Delta 2 is an extremely affordable, high resolution digital planetarium system ideal for portable or small fixed domes. It projects a 1080 pixel diameter circle over a full dome with no blind spots or cutouts. It is the culmination of years of development effort, with an innovative proprietary lens design.
The Digitarium Delta 2 offers a compact size, quick set up, intuitive interface, high resolution, and wealth of features at a surprisingly affordable price. Digitalis also sells inflatable domes in several diameters for a complete portable solution.
The Digitarium Delta 2 outperforms other low cost digital systems on the market, avoiding common drawbacks such as incomplete sky coverage, terrible focus, obvious distortions, difficult user interfaces, easily damaged components, unreliable software and/or hardware, and poor support.
Although more expensive than most portable analog ("pin-hole") projectors, we believe the Digitarium Delta 2 to be a huge value proposition: you receive the features of a modern digital planetarium at a fraction of the typical cost. Think of the power of a computer versus a slide projector.
Affordable and flexible, the Digitarium Delta 2 will revolutionize your astronomy teaching.
For a limited time, take advantage of special pricing on a Complete Portable Digital Planetarium Package. Everything you need in one package, including a Digitarium Delta 2. Only $25,000 through July 31.
Specifications
See also Digitarium general specifications.
| Maximum Dome Diameter |
Approximately 26 feet/8 meters.
Brightness
is the main
issue, since the larger the dome,
the larger the surface area the light from the projector must cover. |
| Resolution |
1080 pixels across a diameter |
| Field of view |
180 degrees, full sky. |
| Pixels per degree of sky |
6 average |
| Angle of Projection |
~175 degrees |
| Base Projector Brightness |
4000 Lumens with non-fisheye lens (Provided for comparison purposes with other systems. Actual brightness with a fisheye lens is significantly less due to not projecting the whole video rectangle and differing lens properties. Please see any of our other models if you need a brighter system.) |
| Nominal Contrast Ratio |
50,000:1 (per projector specifications, without fisheye lens) |
| Lamp life |
Up to 3000 hours |
| Image Quality |
Excellent. The Delta 2 is a marked improvement over the original Delta 1 model.
|
| Internal Storage |
750 GB expandable up to 3 TB or more. |
| Power |
100-240VAC, 50-60Hz, 7A |
| Regulatory |
FCC Class A, CE class A (RoHS compliant) |
| Dimensions |
System: 17.5 x 20 x 15.5 inches (44.5 x 51 x 39.5 cm) Transit case: 26 x 26 x 22.5 inches (66 x 66 x 57 cm) |
| Weight |
System: 57 pounds (25.9 Kg) Transit case: 37.4 pounds (17 Kg) Total: 94.4 pounds (43 Kg) The rugged transit case has built in wheels and extendable handle for easy transport on flat surfaces. |
| US Price |
$21,500 ($25,000 with Universal Console™ option)
(Outside the US contact a local dealer for pricing.) |
Purchasing Information
Purchase price includes:- One Digitarium Delta 2 planetarium system with set of two Digitarium remote controls (one spare)
- Wheeled transit case
- Heavy duty surge suppressor with 25-foot cord (120 VAC countries only)
- DLP projector remote control
- Comprehensive and easy to use set of user manuals.
- Set of lesson plans for use with elementary through high school students
- 1000 GB portable hard drive with companion media for lesson plans along with the following fulldome video shows:
- IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System
- Two Small Pieces of Glass
- Citizen Sky - Epsilon Aurigae
- FLIGHT TO THE MOON: LRO and LCROSS Revisited
- Losing the Dark (Show licensing agreements must be signed and returned before system ships to receive hard drive.)
- Three year limited warranty (Three year limited warranty on the projection component from BenQ.)
- Free technical support and automated software updates for the life of your system.
- Lens cleaning kit (US only due to shipping restrictions)
- Free membership in our Digitarium users community website.
- Prepaid one-year individual membership in the International Planetarium Society.
Please note: you supply your own dome or purchase one. Please use our purchase page for ordering instructions.
Updated Apr 11 2013
