Sorry for the late notice, but hopefully some of you will be able to act on this! -Karrie ... The International Year of Astronomy's Cultural Astronomy and ...
FINAL CALL for IMERSA Founding Sponsors. Deadline for commitment has been extended to December 31, 2008. IMERSA is a newly formed, international professional...
Hmmm... now this would be useful - inflatable domes made from dual view fabric: http://www.ideasforlife.tv/watch/36 The possible uses of a dome would instantly...
Looks like The Elumenati are continuing to create interesting solutions.... See http://www.geodome.info/ ps: Sorry if you saw this twice, I also posted it to...
Many of you are probably already familiar with this website, but in case you're not, check it out: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html The pictures...
Due to recent questions on optimal resolution with spherical mirror projection, I've added some additional notes to the FAQ. Note that there are lots of...
Seasonal Greetings to everybody from Down Under. On the eve of the I.Y.o.A, it is worth perhaps mentioning the link between Astronomy and International...
A month or so ago I mentioned an upcoming DVD with Dark Skies resources. I just learned that the DVDs are now for sale online through the Great Lakes...
... Actually, if you are a member of IPS, you'll the set for free. Likewise, several of the planetarium regions are sending them out to all their members. ...
Greg  Did you make it back to the states? What are you up to now? Did you end up disposing of the planetarium dome?  I picked up another planetarium...
Sorry guys, I didn't mean to send that to the whole group, but you are welcome to check out the links that I listed. The guy in Romania is doing really...
Kevin  As far as I have been able to determine it is a Spitz Model A (a "Deluxe" version with lenses as opposed to the "Standard" version that came without...
... Thanks Greg, although I note this is from perhaps 6 months ago. As it happens the moderation of the group has been (fortunately) light ... only a few...
One question I always get from people is if there is a master list of known shows that could be played on either fisheye or warped fisheye systems. I think it...
... Do you mean "shows" as in movies, or content in general? If the former, then all movies made for fulldome (ie: fisheye) can be played and warped on the...
There's a fulldome Wikipedia that might be of interest to some or all of you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulldome It doesn't break down movie content into...
Welcome to the International Year of Remaining Cloudy Each Night! I predict our planetariums wil become increasingly popular as Earth starts to look like Venus...
Hello folks. I'm a new member who'd like to introduce myself. I live in Iowa City, IA and own a home-built cylinder-type star projector with a star field...
Has anyone managed to get successful warping in the latest version of Stellarium, that is, version 0.10.0 beta? I'm starting to get multiple requests in this...
We have been advised that since we updated our website for Mirrordome, it is not working well. However our alternative site is fine. For details about our...
Has anyone out there had any experience projecting a video game through their dome projection system onto the dome screen so that you can see the environment...
... Sure, quite a few people have experimented with this sort of thing. The key is finding a game engine that is either available as source code or has a...
Hi Paul and everyone else, Sorry for the slow reply to this post. I just got back from the American Astronomical Society meeting, which was a great way to kick...
... I could make despairing comments here about Stellarium and the spherical mirror support, but I won't :-(. Having said that, the main problem seems to be...
Three points to keep in mind: 1) Version 0.10.xx is still in beta, which means that users should expect to find bugs/problems to work out. 2) Johannes, who...
Well, I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to make any "despairing comments" about Stellarium and spherical mirror projection. The progress that the...
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