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PLANETARIA Journal of the International Planetarium Vol PLANETARIA Journal of the International Planetarium Vol. 29, No. I, March 2000 Articles 5 Three Astronomies .................................................. James Kaler Features 11 Reviews ..................................................................... 14 Gibbous Gazette ...................................................... 16 Minutes of IPS Council Meeting ....................... 23 Mobile News Network ........................... 26 What's New ....................................................... 28 Forum: 10 Commandments ............................ 33 President's Message ...................... 00 0.0.0 ••• 49 International News ............................................... 55 Planetechnica: Create Panoramas ................ 65 Jane's Corner: Best Planetarium North America Welcomes a Brilliant NelN Character in Star ShOlNs: Zeiss Fiber Optics With the dawn of the new millenni­ improve the quality of Star Shows for um, visitors of the new planetariums in audiences of the Universarium. They are Oakland, CA and New York City will also offered with the Starmaster, the experience brilliant stars produced by medium planetarium. the Carl Zeiss Universarium fiber optics Quality at the highest level which systems, Invented by Carl Zeiss, the stars you can afford. appear in their natural tiny size, but We will be happy to inform you shine with extraordinary brilliance. about how Carl Zeiss can make sure thaI Come and see this absolute pinnacle you will experience a new experience of projections of stars. Fiber optic systems Star Shows. by Carl Zeiss are not only offered to Seeing Is Believing! Carl Zeiss Planetarium Division In the U.S.& Canada D - 07740 lena cOlltact Pearl Reilly: INS TFlLJf'v'1ENT Telephone: + 49-3641 -64 24 06 1-800-726-8805 Fax: + 49-3641-64 30 23 Fax: 1-504-764-7665 E-mail: planetarium @zeiss.de E·mail: [email protected] Interne!: http://www.zeiss.delplanetariums The Planetarian (ISN 0090-3213) is published quarterly by the International Society. ©2000. International Planetarium Society. Inc .. all rights reserved. Opinions exp,ressed netarian by authors are personal opinions and are not necessarily the opinions of the International etarium Society, its officers, or agents. Acceptance of advertisements, announcements, Of Vol. 29, No.1 material does not imply endorsement by the International Planetarium Society, its agents. The Editor welcomes items for consideration for publication. Please consult (or "'Pr111",,,,tl March 2000 "Guidelines for Contributors" printed on page 56 in the September 1997 issue and posted web site. The Editor reserves the right to edit any manuscript to suit this publication's Executive Editor John Mosley E F s Griffith Observatory 2800 E. Observatory Road Adler Planetarium ........................................................... Los Angeles, california 90027 USA Audio Visual (1) 323-664-1181 daytime phone (1) 323-663-4323 fax Bowen Productions ............................................ .. [email protected] Commercial Electronics ................................................ Advertising Coordinator Davis Planetarium .......................................................... Sheri Barton Trbovich East Coast Control The Clark Foundation POBox 9007 Evans & Sutherland ........................................ cover Salt Lake City, UT 84109-0007 USA Goto Optical Manufacturing (1) 801-725-2771 voice (1) 801-583-5522 fax Joe Hopkins .............................................. [email protected] Learning Technologies, ........................................ .. Membership Miami Space ............................... Individual: $50 one year; $90 two years Minneapolis Planetarium ............................................. Institutional: $200 first year; $100 annual renewal Library Subscriptions: $36 one year Minolta Corporation ........................ Direct membership requests and changes ofaddress Pangolin Laser Systems, ....................................... to the Treasurer /Membership Chairman; see next page for address and contact information. R. S. Automation ............................................................ Seiler Instruments ............................. cover 1 P. S. Job Information Service The IPS Job Information Service has moved to Sky-Skan, Inc ................................................................... .. the World Wide Web. Please check Spitz, Inc .......................................................................... the 'Jobs" page on the IPS web site, http://www.i ps-planetari um.org. Back Issues of the Planetarian Available from: Charlene Oukes IPS Back Publications Repository Strasenburgh Planetarium Lars Broman Richard McColman International News Planetechnica Rochester Museum & Science Center 657 East Avenue Susan Reynolds Button Jim ..... u ..................... ,'F. Rochester, NY 14607 Mobile News Network What's New Index Jane G. Hastings A cumulative index of major articles that have Jane's Comer appeared in the Planetarian from the first issue through the current issue is available on paper James Hughes Whitt Gibbous Gazette ($12 ppd) or disk ($5 ppd) from the Exec. Editor. A shortened copy is at the Planetarian web site. Final Deadlines March: January 21; June: April 21 International Planetarium Soci September: July 21; December: October 21 World Wide Home Page: http://www . ip s-p lanetari urn. org http://www.GriffithObs.org/lPSPlanetarian.html Vol. 29, No.1, March 2000 Planetarian President Executive Secretary Director del Planetario "Lic. Elections Collnllnit'tee Chairman Dr. Dale W. Smith Lee Ann Hennig, Planetarium Felipe Rivera" Steven Mitch BGSU Planetarium Thomas Jefferson High School Centro de Convenciones y Benedum Natural Science Physics & Astronomy Dept. 6560 Braddock Road Exposiciones de Morelia Center Bowling Green State University Alexandria, Virginia 22312 USA Av. Ventura Puente Y Ogle bay Park Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA (1) 703-750-8380 Camelinas Wheeling. WV 26003 (1) 419-372-8666 (1) 703-750-5010 fax 58070 Morelia, Mich .. 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Kraupe 1000 rue Saint-Jacques O. c/o Planetarium EuroPlaNet @ ART OF SKY Montreal, gc H3C IG7 Publications Chair Museum of the Rockies Rumfordstr. 41 Canada April Whitt Montana State I T.... , H,o-.."H-u D-80469 Muenchen (Munich) (1) 5148724530 Fembank Science Center 600 W. Kagy Blvd. Germany (1) 5148728102 Fax 156 Heaton Park Drive NE Bozeman, Montana 59717 USA 498921031531 voice [email protected] Atlanta, Georgia 30307 USA 498921031532 fax (1) 404-378-4314 ext 221 IPS Web Site: [email protected] IPS 2002 Conference Chair (1) 404-370-1336 fax http://www.ips-planetarium.org lng. Gabriel Mm10z Bedolla april. [email protected] Ie Pe S. Affiliate Represen Association of French-Speaking European/Mediterranean Japan Planetarium Society 600 W. Kagy Blvd. Planetariums Planetarium Association Soichi Itoh Bozeman, Montana 59717 Agnes Acker Dennis Simopoulos Suginan1i Science Education Center OJ 406-994-6891 Planetarium Strasbourg Eugenides Planetarium 3-3-13 Shimizu. Suginami-ku. (1) 406-994-2682 fax Universite Louis Pasteur Syngrou Avenue-Amfithea Tokyo 167 Japan [email protected] Rue de L'Observatoire Athens. Greece (81) 3-3396-4391 67,00 Strasbourg, France (30) 1-941-1181 (81) 3-3396-4393 fax 33-388212042 (30) 1-941-7372 fax [email protected] Russian Planetariums As!;ociatiion 33-388 212045 fax dps@eugenides_found.edu.gr Zinaida P. Sitkova [email protected] Middle Atlantic planetarium Society Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium Great Lakes Planetarium Assoc. Don Knapp Pokhyalinsky SYezd 5-A Assoc. of Mexican Planetariums Susan Reynolds The Henry W. Ray SpeCial Experi- Nizhny Novgorod. 603001. RUSSia Ignacio Castro Pinal Onondaga-Cortland -Madison ence Room (7) 8312-34-21-51 Museo Technologico C.F.E. B.O.C.E.S. Planetarium McDonald Elementary School (7) 8312-36-20-61 fax Apartado Postal 18-816 P.O. Box 4774 666 Reeves Lane [email protected] CP 11870 Mexico City, D.F. Mexico Syracuse. 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