High powered, short throw projectors for outdoor gig?

I had a great opportunity come my way to do live visuals on our outdoor band shell, and this is a beautiful white quarter-dome. I’ve done planetarium shows before and alot of the same tricks will apply here.

I need to use my budget to buy or rent two bright, short throw projectors and I am looking for recommendations on what it will take to get the job done right. The shell is 60 feet across, 30 feet high, and outdoors. I have tested a pair of 5000 lumen short throws, and they are not quite bright enough and not quite big enough of an image to cover the quarter dome.

Can anyone recommend a solution here? I think I probably need 8k+ lumens, and possibly ultra-short-throw or a projector with interchangeable lenses?

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BUMP:
As I once told a DJ friend… ain’t no projector brighter than the sun :head_shaking_horizontally:

Any tips, chat? I am in the same boat!!!

I do find https://www.projectorcentral.com/ handy for parametric search though it’s a bit tedious to open each search result in a new tab, etc etc.