By: Sam Benshoof, INFORUM MOORHEAD – The farthest reaches of the universe are now closer than ever for the Fargo-Moorhead area. Over the weekend, the Minnesota State University Moorhead Planetarium, on campus in Bridges Hall, installed a new $60,000 Elumenati digital projector. The projector, coupled with special Uniview scientific software, provides the opportunity for the planetarium to expand its programming […]
Experience will be immersive, dynamic and far-reaching Imagine leaning back in a comfortable, climate-controlled room and diving into the depths of the ocean, flying to the mountaintops on Earth or soaring out to the furthest known quasar. This seamless visualization will soon be available in MSUM’s with its new digital Elumenati projector and Uniview scientific software. The new projector will […]
A physics seminar on “Physics Major to Planetarian-A Personal Journey” will be held Friday, October 28 from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. in Hagen Hall 325. The speaker is Dave Weinrich from MSUM Department of Physics and Astronomy. About the talk: Growing up in southeastern Minnesota at the beginning of the Space Age, I developed an early interest in amateur astronomy. […]
Once in a lifetime opportunity to see an exploding star Astronomers at Minnesota State University Moorhead were among the first to observe a newly discovered supernova on Thursday, Aug. 24. Telescopes around the world are studying the supernova—a star that exploded in the spiral galaxy M101. This type of stellar explosion is important to scientists because the exploding star is as bright as 100 billion […]
Dave Weinrich, MSUM Planetarium Coordinator, recently chaired his first council meeting as President of the International Planetarium Society (IPS). Thirty people, representing IPS affiliates in Australia, Japan, China, Brazil, the USA, Russia and several European nations, attended the meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia on July 1 and 2. The Council admitted China as a regional affiliate and selected Beijing, China […]