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...
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Paul Bourke
pauldavidbourke
Jan 6, 2009 10:45 am
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...
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chas3701
Jan 9, 2009 10:51 pm
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...
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Clint Reagan
clintgreagan
Jan 9, 2009 10:57 pm
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...
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Paul Bourke
pauldavidbourke
Jan 10, 2009 7:39 am
... 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...
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Karrie Berglund
bergieberglund
Jan 10, 2009 7:02 pm
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...
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Paul Bourke
pauldavidbourke
Jan 11, 2009 10:58 am
... 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...
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Karrie Berglund
bergieberglund
Jan 11, 2009 8:20 pm
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...
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Antonio Pedrosa
pedrosaantonio
Jan 12, 2009 1:46 am
... Hi Clint. We have been working in bringing Quake III into the dome. The projection is done through a software we developed called DomeView ...
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Bryan Maple
bryanmaple
Jan 14, 2009 2:02 pm
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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Bryan Maple
bryanmaple
Jan 14, 2009 2:03 pm
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...
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Karrie Berglund
bergieberglund
Jan 14, 2009 5:14 pm
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...
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trenner49
Jan 14, 2009 5:22 pm
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...
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Paul Bourke
pauldavidbourke
Jan 15, 2009 12:14 am
... 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...
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Paul Floyd
ozskywatch
Jan 15, 2009 12:17 am
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....
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Paul Bourke
pauldavidbourke
Jan 15, 2009 12:31 am
... 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...
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Paul Floyd
ozskywatch
Jan 15, 2009 12:45 am
Thanks Paul....
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hawk4life1991
Jan 15, 2009 2:29 pm
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. ...
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kdconod
Jan 15, 2009 3:27 pm
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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cm2127
Jan 15, 2009 3:31 pm
... best ... old ... Orion and ... Dear Scott, I have an idea that might not really address your needs, but it does present an alternative. How about making...
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cm2127
Jan 15, 2009 3:57 pm
... the ... and ... an ... for ... does ... mount) ... lack ... up ... and ... i'm ... OOPS... I misspoke. I meant to say that the asterisms like the dippers,...
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cm2127
Jan 18, 2009 12:49 am
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...
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Karrie Berglund
bergieberglund
Jan 19, 2009 4:01 pm
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...
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Miller, Charles
cm2127
Jan 20, 2009 2:56 am
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,...
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Karrie Berglund
bergieberglund
Jan 20, 2009 4:02 pm
Hi Charles and others interested in grant funding, We have some basic information on our website to help people find funding for our systems: ...
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fraserneville
Jan 21, 2009 4:24 am
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,...
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Paul Bourke
pauldavidbourke
Jan 22, 2009 1:29 am
There was some discussion a while back about realtime applications. A Dalai Felinto has recently (now) implemented fisheye support for the Blender realtime...
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Karrie Berglund
bergieberglund
Jan 28, 2009 4:07 pm
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,...
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Paul Bourke
pauldavidbourke
Jan 31, 2009 1:19 am
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...
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Oscar Kim Morales
kimsurfer1975
Jan 31, 2009 6:31 am
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...
