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1287
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...
cm2127
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Jan 6, 2009
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1288
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...
Paul Bourke
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Jan 6, 2009
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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...
chas3701
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Jan 9, 2009
10:51 pm
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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...
Clint Reagan
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Jan 9, 2009
10:57 pm
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... 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...
Paul Bourke
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Jan 10, 2009
7:39 am
1292
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...
Karrie Berglund
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Jan 10, 2009
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... 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...
Paul Bourke
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Jan 11, 2009
10:58 am
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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...
Karrie Berglund
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Jan 11, 2009
8:20 pm
1295
... Hi Clint. We have been working in bringing Quake III into the dome. The projection is done through a software we developed called DomeView ...
Antonio Pedrosa
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Jan 12, 2009
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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...
Bryan Maple
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Jan 14, 2009
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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...
Bryan Maple
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Jan 14, 2009
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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...
Karrie Berglund
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Jan 14, 2009
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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...
trenner49
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Jan 14, 2009
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... 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 Bourke
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Jan 15, 2009
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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....
Paul Floyd
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Jan 15, 2009
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... 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...
Paul Bourke
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Jan 15, 2009
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Thanks Paul....
Paul Floyd
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Jan 15, 2009
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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. ...
hawk4life1991
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Jan 15, 2009
2:29 pm
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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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Jan 15, 2009
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... 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...
cm2127
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Jan 15, 2009
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... the ... and ... an ... for ... does ... mount) ... lack ... up ... and ... i'm ... OOPS... I misspoke. I meant to say that the asterisms like the dippers,...
cm2127
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Jan 15, 2009
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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...
cm2127
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Jan 18, 2009
12:49 am
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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...
Karrie Berglund
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Jan 19, 2009
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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,...
Miller, Charles
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Jan 20, 2009
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Hi Charles and others interested in grant funding, We have some basic information on our website to help people find funding for our systems: ...
Karrie Berglund
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Jan 20, 2009
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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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Jan 21, 2009
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There was some discussion a while back about realtime applications. A Dalai Felinto has recently (now) implemented fisheye support for the Blender realtime...
Paul Bourke
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Jan 22, 2009
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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,...
Karrie Berglund
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Jan 28, 2009
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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...
Paul Bourke
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Jan 31, 2009
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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...
Oscar Kim Morales
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