I have just added three new photos to the "Gravitational Discovery Centre" photo album. This gallery is now open (unlike the earlier construction/testing...
Melbourne is a long way from Chichester UK, but the South Downs Planetarium there celebrated Sir Patrick Moore's 85th Birthday with the launch of it's...
As Paul Bourke has often pointed out, if you don't use first surface mirrors you will get double reflected images. Such mirrors are very delicate and are...
Hi all! In small_planetarium group usually discussed systems based on single projector and spheric mirror. Our short experiments showed that such system has...
Hi all, The technique of spherical mirror is a beautiful technique, but not the only one! I successfully completed a fisheye projector low cost, home made, for...
... Given that this is an international list, it may be better to specify which dollar is being referred to. I know that 1080p projectors (and a couple that...
... Yes, we have 2 alternatives now: 1. build a sphemir-system, based on good HD projector. Optoma HD81-LV, ~5000$USA for example. 2. build a multiprojector...
I am surprised to read unenthusiastic remarks about 1024 x 768 projectors, because when Swinburne University first offered Paul's Mirrordome he recommended the...
... This is certainly an interesting option, given that it is increasingly easy to drive 6 (or more) projectors from a single computer, used to be a pain...
... Sure but times are changing, 2-3 years ago when I was developing this at Swinburne the HD projectors were very rare and expensive. With the rapid growth of...
Thank you very much for the detailed answer. All that you say is true and i undestand the complexity of the problem. Of course i consider several computers and...
For your information, Acril now has a page dedicated to their first surface mirror product. http://www.acrilconvex.com/firstsurfacemirrors.htm Or navigate from...
Dear All, I'm considering the possibility to run up a planetarium project in my school. As a typical italian school we're very poor. we can build up a...
Reminder from: small_planetarium Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/small_planetarium/cal International Day of Planetaria Sunday March 16, 2008 All Day...
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Hi Marco, I also have a school planetarium. A cardboard dome is very possible. Pictures of my dome are in the Toongabbie East, Sydney folder here. I'd go to...
We built one out of cardboard and have used homemade and commercial projectors in our planetarium. Mostly complete documentation at; www.cccoe.net/stars/ Jeff...
Dear Jeff, spectacular and intelligent work. I will try. Have you got an image (or more than one) of the stars projected in the interior? Does Stellarium fit...
... I have very poor quality images of our fisheye projector in use, not the mirror projector. ... Stellarium cannot do anything besides show the night sky and...
Hi all, Actually, Stellarium is scriptable. Our company president, Rob Spearman, is one of the primary Stellarium developers, and Rob added the scripting code....
Dear Karrie, can you please provide such an example I presented? Can you give me the complete script command list? regards Marco ... in the ... capability to ...
Dear Marco, This page has user-contributed Stellarium scripts: http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Scripts The user's guide covers scripting instructions...
For those of you using Macs and spherical mirror projection, you may be interested in a Quartz Composer patch that implements the warping of images or movies...
Hello, all. This is Ramón Vargas from Mexico. We use an spherical mirror system and stellarium in our planetarium. As Rob said, the scripting language of...
Scripting commands are listed in the appendices of the user manual, and I did find the command for starting a different script. The command is simple: script...
An odd error happened in the last line of my previous post. The last should say, "If a script plays another script, the first will terminate." -Karrie...
For those who have contacted us about our Mirrordome, movies , Stellarium, and Celestia, etc., please go to www.cosmodome.net Regards, Charles Treleaven ...
