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Alexander Zaragoza The ¨7th Small and Portable Planetarium meeting¨ 2010 in Finland has ended.

Hello everybody!

The ¨7th Small and Portable Planetarium meeting¨ 2010 in Finland has ended.

You can read all about it at the Antares FullDome Productions blog, day by day, both in English and Spanish; http://blog.antares.es/

A huge THANK YOU goes out to Ilpo Kuusela and Arto Oksanen for arranging this interesting e… Continue

Added by Alexander Zaragoza on August 21, 2010 at 5:18pm — No Comments

Mark C. Petersen ANNOUNCING: GEODESIUM Music from SpacePark360 now available!

Most planetarians know that Geodesium album releases are relatively rare (eight over three decades!) So news about number 9 may be of interest. But Geodesium fans, beware! This is NOT your father's space music!

Music from SpacePark360 is unlike the planetar

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Added by Mark C. Petersen on August 12, 2010 at 11:23pm — No Comments

Alexander Zaragoza ¨7th Small and Portable Planetarium¨ gathering in Jyväskylä, Finland

9th of July 2010, Barcelona, Spain

The ¨7th Small and Portable Planetarium¨ gathering in Jyväskylä, Finland is up for August, 2010.


The 7th Small and Portable Planetarium gathering is going to be held at the Planetarium Kallioplanetaario in Jyväskylä, Finland, during the
period 17-20 August 2010.
The gathering is organized by the planetarium Kallioplanetaario located

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Added by Alexander Zaragoza on July 19, 2010 at 6:59am — No Comments

Charles Miller Have Spitz A4, looking for dome etc.

Hello. I should note that I have acquired a Spitz A4 projector. I still am interested in acquiring various

ancilliary projectors and equipment and am still looking for a projection dome (30-40' diameter) etc.

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Added by Charles Miller on April 22, 2010 at 8:26am — No Comments

Alessio Scaboro Pleiadi Planetarium

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Added by Alessio Scaboro on February 16, 2010 at 9:26am — No Comments

Zeeshaan Ali Dinally "The wolf moon"

Most ancient cultures named the full moon in each month. No particular reason, though some of the names make sense based on the season. January – Wolf moon, Hunger moon, Old moon February – Snow moon, Ice moon March – Worm moon, Sap moon, Sugaring moon, Crow moon, Storm moon April – Pink moon, Egg moon, Grass moon, Rain moon, Growing moon May – Flower moon, Planting moon, Milk moon, Hare moon June – Strawberry moon, Rose moon, Honey moon, Mead moon July – Buck moon, Thunder moon, Deer moon, Hay… Continue

Added by Zeeshaan Ali Dinally on January 31, 2010 at 5:40am — No Comments

Troy McClellan Write Nancy Pelosi and tell her manned space flight is important!!

I just saw this disturbing article in Florida Today about how our Speaker of the House said she is not a big fan of manned spaceflight. This woman is so full of herself that she can't see that much of the technolgy she uses on a daily basis is a direct result of the manned space progam. We need to let her and other members of congress know that manned spaceflight is important to us. I don't care what kind of label you put on her, she is a career politician that has repeatedly shown that power is… Continue

Added by Troy McClellan on December 20, 2009 at 8:18pm — No Comments

Sally Brummel It's a boy!

Hi all, I am back to work this week after a 3 month maternity leave. Leopold Max Brummel was born on Sept. 2. Yes, we call him Leo. No, the name was not influenced by the constellation. No, Leo is not a Leo astrologically. Yes, the Sun is "in" Leo on Sept. 2 so Leo is a Leo in that sense!

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Added by Sally Brummel on December 3, 2009 at 4:16pm — No Comments

Mark E. Perkins Warped Media Demo

For those of you who may be interested, ASH Enterprises will be demonstrating its Warped Media full dome video projector next Monday morning in Birmingham AL and on Tuesday morning in Ruston, LA. Anyone interested in attending either of these demos please drop an email to ASHMichigan@comcast.net for specific time and location details. Continue

Added by Mark E. Perkins on November 5, 2009 at 4:31am — No Comments

Zeeshaan Ali Dinally October Highlights 2009

October 4 - Full Moon September 22 - Close Conjunction of Mercury and Saturn - Early in the morning over North America, the planets Mercury and Saturn will appear in the sky only 0.3 degrees apart. October 13 Close Conjunction of Venus and Saturn. The two planets, Venus and Saturn, will appear only a half-degree apart in the early morning sky. October 18 New Moon October 21, 22 Orionids Meteor Shower. The Orionids is an average shower producing about 20 met… Continue

Added by Zeeshaan Ali Dinally on October 1, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Laura Swift Bad news first, then the good

The Jr Engineering Program at Utah State University lost it's department sponsor. As a result, I have no idea right now if I'll be able to continue using the StarLab at local schools in the coming school year. I do plan to be at the American West Heritage Center's Giant Star Party on 14 Aug. I saw Neptune when it was in conjunction with Jupiter. I have a Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/cachestarhouse Continue

Added by Laura Swift on July 22, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments

Mike Francis Galileo at the Maryland Science Center

Last week Galileo was in Baltimore for the opening of "Two Small Pieces of Glass" at the Davis Planetarium. The evening started out with Westminster Astronomical Society setting up some of their telescopes on the courtyard at the Maryland Science Center. If you haven't been to the MdSC, it sits right on the Baltimore inner harbor. Along with the Charles Hayden Planetarium and Museum of Science in Boston, this is one of the great views from a science center. The weather was beautiful, so the ques… Continue

Added by Mike Francis on July 17, 2009 at 4:52pm — No Comments

Mike Francis Where's Galileo

I intended to keep a running monologue of Galileo's travels this International Year of Astronomy and obviously I have fallen behind. Since visiting the Space Telescope Institute, Galileo has gone to the Buhl Planetarium at the Carnegie Science Center, the Franklin Institute for the opening of "Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astonomy" and again for the Galileo symposium weekend, Six Flags America for Physics Day, the Casper Planetarium (while he was visiting schools in Casper, WY), The Virgi… Continue

Added by Mike Francis on June 27, 2009 at 7:57am — No Comments

Rod_Kennedy All systems go!

I recently returned from my first large scale planetarium conference, the SEPA conference in Nahsville (which by the way was a complete BLAST). One thing struck me as interesting. When meeting new people the line of the conversation usually runs along the lines of introductions, where each person is from and then the.."what size is your dome?" and "what system are you running". I am hoping that now that I know more of these great people and have started some collaborations projects with them (o… Continue

Added by Rod_Kennedy on June 26, 2009 at 1:38pm — No Comments

Eric Briggs David Dunlap Observatory Saved

Toronto RASC To Hold Public Viewings With 74-inch Telescope at David Dunlap Observatory
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 10:34
The big telescope at the David Dunlap Observatory is back in business. Under an agreement with the owners of the property, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre, now operates the 74-inch reflecting telescope and will begin providing public education and outreach programs. The first public viewing nights at the observatory will be held on July 18

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Added by Eric Briggs on June 19, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Jack L. Northrup Success from Ogden

I am waiting to have the premiere of my Blender rough show "The Soccer Game" made into a movie then I will get to watch it on Ott Planetarium's Mediaglobe. Technology can be so much fun! Continue

Added by Jack L. Northrup on June 5, 2009 at 8:38am — No Comments

Sharon Shanks A Request for help from Romania

I'm not the person she should be asking - can anyone out there help her? Thanks! Sharon from Planetariu Bacau to sharon.shanks@gmail.com date Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:08 AM subject astronomy exhibition mailed-by yahoo.com signed-by yahoo.com hide details Apr 16 Reply Follow up message Hello, We are from a small Planetarium from Bacau, Romania. Our Planetarium is placed in a former water tower, and its exhibition space extends over three levels. We want to upgrade the permanent exhibition a… Continue

Added by Sharon Shanks on May 7, 2009 at 10:58pm — No Comments

Jason Archer Planetarium Lighting

Does anyone have a creative and relatively cheap solution for lighting under the dome so we can use the space for class work? We'd like to have enough light for reading, doing lab experiments, activities, etc...about 40 foot candles. We have looked into the RGBW systems but have heard that they don't really provide enough light for traditional class work. True? Besides, we aren't installing the traditional cove lighting system for quite sometime but will need to use the room for class work as so… Continue

Added by Jason Archer on April 23, 2009 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Charles Miller Looking for good deal on Spitz A3P (or perhaps 512 or later)

Greetings. I am leading a community effort to establish a planetarium in my rather small community (60k) that is home to the University of Iowa. There is interest in a facility and I am someone willing to do some work toward an interim planetarium as a demo facility. I would make the dome myself and have engineering and machining experience to assist in maintainance / improvement of equipment. I would like to ask all within "earshot" to perhaps help me locate a source of a working Spitz A3P pro… Continue

Added by Charles Miller on April 21, 2009 at 6:22pm — No Comments

Bruce Brazell Created a Twitter page for the planetarium.

You can find my tweats at www.twitter.com/cookplanetarium. Continue

Added by Bruce Brazell on March 28, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

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