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Calicut Planetarium: a Story of Triumph Over Trials Holt Planetarium V.S Vol. 43, No. 3 September 2014 Journal of the International Planetarium Society The Beijing Planetarium Host of IPS 2014 Articles September 2014 Vol. 43 No. 3 IPS Special Section 10 Candidates for IPS officers Executive Editor 12 Awards at Beijing 2014 Manos Kitsonas Sharon Shanks 14 Taking IPS to 202 and Beyond Jon Elvert Ward Beecher Planetarium Youngstown State University Scenes from Beijing: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 66 One University Plaza Youngstown, Ohio 44555 USA 18 Sharing the wonder of stars on shoestrings and wax Ron Walker +1 330-941-3619 20 You need one at your house Gary Likert [email protected] 21 The Holy Grail for the planetarium collector Webmaster 22 Help celebrate space internationally October 4-10 Haritina Mogosanu Alan Gould 24 Calicut Planetarium: A story of triumph over trials Holt Planetarium V.S. Ramachandran, Jayant Gangopadhyay Lawrence Hall of Science 30 Get Organized Adam Thanz University of California 43 Under One Dome: Super Science Investigators Corry Driscoll Berkeley, California 94720-5200 USA 77 Jack Dunn: a new life after 43 years at Mueller Planetarium +1 510-643-5082 Troy Fedderson +1 510-642-1055 fax 78 Tributes: BJ Harper, Bill Luzader, John Schroer [email protected] Advertising Coordinator Dr. Dale Smith Columns (See Publications Committee on page 3) 74 Book Reviews. April S. Whitt Membership 79 Calendar of Events. .Loris Ramponi Individual: $65 one year; $100 two years 28 Data to Dome. Mark SubbaRao Institutional: $250 first year; $125 annual renewal 46 Digital Fulldome & Immersive Media News Library Subscriptions: $50 one year; $90 two years 44 From the Classdome . Jack L. Northrup All amounts in US currency 4 In Front of the Console . Sharon Shanks Direct membership requests and changes of 50 International News. Lars Broman address to the Treasurer/Membership Chairman 80 Last Light. April S. Whitt Printed Back Issues of the Planetarian 68 Mobile News. Susan Reynolds Button IPS Back Publications Repository 48 Partycles. Alex Cherman maintained by the Treasurer/Membership Chair; 6 President’s Message . Thomas W. Kraupe contact information is on next page 32 Seeking What Works. Jeanne Bishop Final Deadlines 72 Sound Advice. Jeff Bowen 76 Waxing New. Sharon Shanks March: January 21 June: April 21 September: July 21 December: October 21 Index of Advertisers Astro-Tec. 47 Audio Visual Imagineering . 35 Associate Editors California Academy of Sciences. 45 Clark Planetarium/Hansen Dome . 27 Book Reviews Data to Dome International April S. Whitt Mark SubbaRoa Lars Broman Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc.. 49 Evans & Sutherland . 53, 65, outside back cover Calendar Classroom Last Light Loris Ramponi Education April S. Whitt GOTO INC . 71 Jack Northrup Konica Minolta Planetarium Co. Ltd . .51 Cartoons Mobile News Alexandre Education Susan Button Metaspace . 59 Cherman Committee News Jeanne Bishop Sound Advice Mirage3d. 5, 55, 63 Jeff Bowen NSC creative . 31 R.S.A. Cosmos . inside back cover SCISS. 73 Sky-Skan, Inc . 39-42 Softmachine. .61 Spitz, Inc. 23, 75 Spitz Creative Media. 33, 37, 57, 67 On the Cover: Artistic interpreta- You Can Do Astronomy. 38 tion of the Beijing Planetarium by Zeiss, Inc. inside front cover Jim Sweitzer. News, reports, and photographs from IPS 2014 appear throughout this issue. International Planetarium Society home page: www.ips-planetarium.org Planetarian home page: www.ips-planetarium.org/?page=plntrn September 2014 Planetarian 1 Affiliate Representatives Association of Brazilian British Association Italian Association Russian Planetariums Planetariums of Planetaria of Planetaria Association Officers Alexandre Cherman Dr. Jenny Shipway Loris Ramponi Zinaida P. Sitkova Planetário do Rio de Janeiro Head of Planetarium National Archive of Planetaria Nizhny Novgorod President R. Vice-Governador Winchester Science Centre c/o Centro Studi e Ricerche Planetarium Thomas W. Kraupe Rubens Berardo, 100 Telegraph Way, off Serafino Zani Revolutsionnja Street 20 Planetarium Hamburg Rio de Janeiro RJ Alresford Road via Bosca 24, C.P. 104 603002 Nizhny Otto-Wels-Str.1 Brazil 22451-070 Winchester, Hampshire I 25066 Lumezzane Novgorod, Russia (formerly Hindenburgstr.1b) +55 (21) 2274-0046 ext. 264 SO21 1HZ, United Kingdom (Brescia) Italy +7 831 246-78-80 D-22303 Hamburg +55 (21) 2529-2149 fax +44 1 962 891916 +39 30 872 164 +7 831 246-77-89 fax Deutschland alexandre.cherman@ +44 1 962 86369 +39 30 872 545 fax [email protected] +49 0 (40) 428 86 52-21 planetario.rio.rj.gov.br JennyShipway@ [email protected] www.apr.planetariums.ru +49 0 (40) 428 86 52-99 fax planetarios.org.br winchestersciencecentre.com [email protected] +49 0 (40) 4279 24-850 e-fax www.planetariodorio. www.winchestersciencecentre.org www.planetari.org Society of the German- +49 0 (40) 172-40 86 133 cell com.br www.planetarium.org.uk Speaking Planetariums thomas.kraupe@ Japan Christian Theis planetarium-hamburg.de Association of Canadian Association Planetarium Society Planetarium Mannheim Dutch-Speaking of Science Centres Kaoru Kimura Wilhelm-Varnholt-Allee 1 Past-President Planetariums/PLANed Ian C. 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Owens Science Center Association [email protected] Speaking Planetariums Society 9601 Greenbelt Road John Hare President-Elect Marc Moutin Jin Zhu Lanham-Seabrook, Ash Enterprises Cité de l’espace Beijing Planetarium Maryland 20706 USA 3602 23rd Avenue West Avenue Jean Gonord No. 138 Xizhimenwait Street +1 301-918 8750 Bradenton, Florida BP 25855 Beijing, 1000044 +1 301-918 8753 fax 34205 USA Executive Secretary 31506 Toulouse Cedex 5 P.R. 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