Armagh Planetarium

[citation needed] In addition, in 1994 a new exhibition hall, the Eartharium, was added due to increased interest in Earth Science.

[citation needed] Video tape recorders were new and rare at this time and this research was ambitious with many technical hurdles standing in the way.

Off-the-shelf video projectors had to be optically and electronically modified to present natural-looking images of celestial bodies on the dome.

[citation needed] Armagh Planetarium also pioneered the introduction of an electronic audience participation system.

Space Odyssey, created in Armagh in the 1980s and scripted by Ian Ridpath, was the world’s first ever completely interactive planetarium show.

On 7 December 2006, the Armagh Planetarium building was dedicated to the memory of Eric Lindsay in a ceremony led by Archbishop Robin Eames.

The latest Digistar 7 is a "state-of-the-art" computer system projecting full-colour fulldome video across the entire dome.