The Great Grant
In 2001, EPISD recieved a grant from the Department of Defence which is offically called DODT2. "A small portion of this grant was used to upgrade the planetarium systems the actual way we project the skies it changed from an older system called the Spits512A and we switched that to an new video system that we are using now, it's more powerful and a better educational tool, we can do more than we could ever do." explained Cory Stone. All the old machines and all the hundred or so special effects projectors were replaced with a single digital projection system called the Digistar. "The Digistar 3 is just the first color projection system, and Digistar 4 is just an improvement of that system." explained Cory Stone. They started with Digistar 3 and then upgraded to Digistar 4 in 2010.
This is why now that you go to the planetarium you can see the projection much better than years before.
This is why now that you go to the planetarium you can see the projection much better than years before.