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...
Karrie, I received my DVD's a couple of weeks ago, but unfortunately have not been able to look at much of the material yet. Hopefully this weekend I'll be...
Hi Bryan, There's a lot of good stuff on the DVD, and I think you'll enjoy exploring it. I hope my Stellarium scripts and narrations--in addition to the other...
God, yes! As one of the people here since before the beginning, I've seen no other software developer as generous in contributing their work. ( Well... maybe...
... I totally agree that it's a great product ... just yesterday I arranged for a solar heating installer to start using it to determine where to place the...
Paul, I own a licence for The Sky 6. Does this mean that there is a setting I can use that lets me project it using the mirror setup? Regards, Paul Floyd....
... My understanding is that it is now available in Seeker and TheSkyX. I haven't yet tried them but the local planetarium here is going to use them for their...
Hello, I cross posted this on several listserves, but this seems like the best venue for this message. I apologize to those who will get this in duplicate. ...
This is a bit crude but...for years' we've used a small Radmar projector in our portable planetarium. We use constellation outline slides and simply point the...
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Hi folks, as I've posted before (and at Observatory Central), I'm part of a small group of folks in the Iowa City area looking into developing a regional...
Hi Charlie, I can't help you out with A3P parts, but it occurred to me that you might want to seek grant funding to help buy A3P parts as well as to get your...
Dear Karrie, Thank you for the valuable tip. I really appreciate this and the way the internet can bring strangers together in a positive way. Yes... money,...
Hi all, My wife and daughter a visiting London, then Salzburg, in March. Although not astronomers they are interested in what they might get to see naked eye,...
There was some discussion a while back about realtime applications. A Dalai Felinto has recently (now) implemented fisheye support for the Blender realtime...
I just learned of this funding opportunity for US non-profits: http://www.motorola.com/content.jsp?globalObjectId=8153 Note that the deadline is February 15,...
A few people have asked me recently for information on the Software Bisque products (Seeker and SkyX) and their support for spherical mirror projection. The...
Does this mean that if i buy de Seeker, i can just projected in WARP mode in a mirror projection? Oscar Kim, from Mexico... beggining with the mirror dome...