Spitz
Model B
Model B:
Long: 3.5m, weight: half a ton, Suspended from the dome by four steel aircraft cables and anchored to the floor by four similar cables, 3,083 stars (54 of mag. 2.0 and brighter projected by individual lens), zirconium-arc lamp,
3 copies only:
- 1955: Montevideo
- 1958: Flint
- 1959 Usafa
Model C
Model STP
Model STP: Spitz Space Transit Planetarium Projector
4,000 stars (mag +5.8), 5 planets, third axis, all stars greater than 3.5 with 260 separate lenses, two 75 watt arc lamps, for 40 to 65 foot dome, 43 motors, $147,000 with 40 foot dome (1963)
11 copies only:
- 1965 Trenton, Salt Lake City,
- 1966 Bradenton
- 1966 Miami
- 1968 Montgomery
- 1968 Denver (Gates planetarium?), West Hartford (Gengras)
- 1969 Warminster, Yonkers
Model STS + Space Voyager
Model STS: "Space Transit Simulator Planetarium"
then from 1986: "Space Voyager"
and finish in "Spacecrafter" (model with only the starball).
10,000 stars,
13 copies:
Model STS:
- 1973: San Diego CA (until 2001 then Planetarium Museum, CA)
- 1978: Monterey, Mexico
- 1978: Saint Paul (MN)
- 1981: Villahermosa, Mexico (until 2016?)
- 1982: Guadalajara, Mexico
- 1982: Tijuana, Mexico
- 1985: Puebla, Mexico (until 1995: out of order - 2012)
Model Space Voyager (STS with better electronics)
- 1986: Paris, France (until 2006)
- 1987: Singapore (until 2010)
- 1988: Richmond, KY (until Dec. 2014)
- 1991: Charlotte, NC (until 2001 closed, reopened later?)
- 2003: Charleston, WV (until Feb. 2015)
- When?: Saudi Arabia, never installed