A few weeks ago I posted a message saying that since I gave up the Agency for Starlab in favour of Mirrordome, I have a number of Starlab cylinders sitting...
On the BBC home page today there is a question about whether the plural of stadium is "stadiums" or "stadia." The answer was that "stadia" refers to ancient...
Hi all. Last week a neighbouring school visited our planetarium for an excusion as part of their 'Earth & Its Surroundings' unit of work. I'd said we could...
hi All, i´m happy to announce i finally finished my portable planetarium. i wish to thank mr Paul Bourke for his support and patience. Thank´s to Johannes...
For all Mirrordome Users. The latest batch of updates for Swinburne service clients are on the way. These include, Solar System Discoveries, Exoplanets,...
Hey Neville, Congratulations on your success! I'm glad to hear that the tide has turned and your community has "seen the light" about the usefulness and appeal...
Hello, Jose. Good luck with your new planetarium projector system. I encourage you to visit the Loch Ness Productions Web site, for several reasons. One...
Hi José Carlos! at www.antares.es you'll find and see some planetarium programs and segments. If you find them interesting, please contact me, as we have...
5th European Conference of Small and Portable Planetariums 3rd Announcement Navegar Foundation and the Center for Astrophyics of Porto University are pleased...
For those interested in presenting fulldome video content they have created, a new channel has been started at Vimeo, see http://vimeo.com/channel17732...
Hello, Recently I purchased Fulldome AE Plug-in that will help to create dome master frames using after effects. I need to know some links that have rich...
... dome Dear Wesam: Please check out www.mmicorporation.com for astronomy materials. This is our 35th year. Questions, call or write Ralph Levy Tks. Ralph C....
The new Stellarium 10 Beta is now available on the official Stellarium website at www.stellarium.org So far, it looks GREAT! It's missing the script engine,...
We're installing a new small planetarium at Yale University... it will be a Spitz SciDome system with a 30-foot dome. We want to have seating for about 50...
The ones the Adler use are extremely expensive. IIRC like $400 apiece. Frankly I don't think you'd want them though - they are extremely uncomfortable. I've...
... you'd want them though - they are extremely uncomfortable. ... They are very expensive, and they come from Finland, so the exchange rate hurts a lot, too. ...
Hi all, I wanted to let you know that our new Digitarium Epsilon digital planetarium system will make its debut at the 2008 GLPA (Great Lakes Planetarium...
Greetings; A preliminary programme of the 5º European Conference for Small and Portable Planetariums is available in the conference web page. Please have a...
... want ... do at ... We're now thinking about the ABS750W model: http://www.preferred-seating.com/Seating-Chairs/ABS-750W-portable-folding- chairs.htm These...
We are using one in a portable planetarium we can set up for a demonstration. Located in Antioch, California. Jeff Adkins astronomyteacher@... ... Jeff...
Hello I am searching for some equations for calculation number of pixel of dome. Can anyone give me some tips or suggest some links that help me? Thank Mahsa...
... of dome. Can anyone give me some tips or suggest some links that help me? ... Hello, Usually we use arc.minutes to express about the dome resolution. The ...
... Well one can use basic geometry in order to calculate, given a particular projection arrangement how many pixels end up on the dome surface. As the other...
A few people have asked me about better ways of running "shows" in their planetarium when using the spherical mirror projection system. There are lots of ways...
Greetings! Over the summer I accepted a position as "Media Developer" at a planetarium in central California, US. I have been tasked with developing an...
As you get started you might find it easier to buy a few shows to get started. Then once you're up and going add a few pieces of your own work to the show...
Hello There, Good luck! If you can work with Yafray as a renderer with Blender, then I have a modified version which will render to fisheye directly. Also some...
Pete, Thank you for responding! I'm on the verge of learning about the Yafray connection to Blender as I progress through the tutorials. It never occurred to...
Already before I became a member of this group, I built a couple of domes, using a spherical mirror and a standard video projector. Now, from this group, I...
Dear Bengt Rosengren. Do please have a look at Domeview.multimeios.pt <http://domeview.multimeios.pt/>. <http://domeview.multimeios.pt/> Its a windows based...