Catholic Health Sky Theater Planetarium — Attraction in Town of Hempstead

Decided to take the kids out to see Earth show at the theater and wow what a disappointment, especially after having been to the Vanderbilt planetarium out in center port, last week. The theater seems cool with the wide screen and you feel like it will be a real immersive experience but nope. The screen was faded, dark and blurry. We couldn’t tell what the heck was on screen. Add to that the sleepy music and off Scottish accented narration, it was a serious snooze fest. I can’t believe I spent $30 for the 3 of us to see that. While the content might have been informational and interesting, the let down and lack of visual experience totally killed the visit. My kids midway were like “ I can’t see anything it’s so dark, and blurry…” Imagine you are losing your eyesight and are pretty much near the end of losing it all… that was the image on the screen. I kept thinking are my eyes this bad or is it really that bad?! Kids both said it was super blurry and hard to make anything out for them too. Total waste. I think the theater is broken and they should close it down for repairs. This is not how you collect money from...

Could be so much more. The sound system is less then adequate with noticeable distortion. The voices of the young folks on the taped 1/2 hour were like fingernails on a chalkboard. My expectations of the program were way to high. Typical corporate sponsored letdown. Could be so much more. Maybe they should hire a professional scientist to help correct to...

The screen was very dim, hard to see. The bottom left 15% of the screen kept going black. There is a permanent dark area, looks like a circle and two lines that was very noticeable on the middle 1/3 of the screen. The show was supposedly 45 mins but it ended up only being barely 30 minutes - kind of a disappointment after the amount we...