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Vol. 48, No. 4 December 2019 Journal of the International Planetarium Society The Big Blue Ball in the Park Page 70 Executive Editor Sharon Shanks 484 Canterbury Ln Boardman, Ohio 44512 USA +1 330-783-9341 [email protected] December 2019 Webmaster Alan Gould Lawrence Hall of Science Planetarium Vol 48 No 4 University of California Berkeley CA 94720-5200 USA [email protected] Articles Advertising Coordinator Dale Smith (See Publications Committee on page 3) IPEIPS NewsNews Membership 10 Minutes of the 2019 IPS Council Meeting Patty Seaton Individual: $65 one year; $100 two years 14 Continuing the work beyond 2020: The endgamePatty for Seaton the Institutional: $250 first year; $125 annual renewal Library Subscriptions: $50 one year; $90 two years 14 Continuinginitiative the work beyond 2020: The endgameJon for Elvert the All amounts in US currency Planetariuminitiative Research Jon Elvert Direct membership requests and changes of address to the Treasurer/Membership Chairman Planetarium16 The Research Aesthetics of the Planetarium Experience: Research- 16 TheBased Aesthetics Best Practices of the (Part Planetarium 1) Experience: KaResearch- Chun Yu Printed Back Issues of Planetarian IPS Back Publications Repository 22 BasedPractical Best Implications Practices (Part for Extending 1) PlanetariumKa Chun Yu maintained by the Treasurer/Membership Chair 22 PracticalInstruction Implications Using Motion for SensorExtending Devices Planetarium and (See contact information on next page) InstructionHead-Mounted Using Displays Motion Sensor Devices and Final Deadlines Head-MountedPamela Displays A. Maher, Janelle M. Bailey, P.G. Schrader March: January 21 June: April 21 30 Live and Pre-recordedPamela A. Maher, Planetarium Janelle M.Programs Bailey, P.G.Comparing Schrader September: July 21 30 LivePerceived and Pre-recorded Education and Planetarium Entertainment Programs Value Comparing December: October 21 Perceived Education and Entertainment Value Emily Peavy Associate Editors Emily Peavy Book Reviews April S. Whitt Calendar Loris Ramponi 40 Reysa Bernson: A forgotten name, a luminous personality, Cartoons Alexandre Cherman 40 Reysaa tragic Bernson: destiny A forgotten name, a luminousJean-Michel personality, Faidit Classroom education Jack Northrup Data to Dome Mark SubbaRao 46 aUnder tragic One destiny Dome: U.S. Air Force AcademyJean-Michel Judy Faidit Cara Education Committee Jeanne Bishop 4648 UnderLED Display One Dome: Domes: U.S. An Air Introduction Force Academy to the TechnologyJudy Cara Humor April S. Whitt Ron Walker 48 LED Display Domes: An Introduction to theMatthew Technology Allred Immersive Media Carolyn Collins Petersen 50 The Universe in my Pocket GraMatthewżyna Stasi Allredńska International News Lars Petersen Live interactive programs Karrie Berglund 5078 TheHow Universe we do it: in Narrow my Pocket Band-Pass Astronomical Grażyna Imaging Stasińska Mobile news Susan Reynolds Button 78 How we do it: Narrow Band-Pass AstronomicalTom Imaging Arnold Planetarium design/operations Tim Barry Sound advice Jeff Bowen 98 Tributes: Mike Reynolds Tom Arnold Southern Hemisphere Haritina Mogoșanu 98 Tributes: Mike Reynolds History/Years ago Tom Callen Ron Walker On the Cover Index of Advertisers American Museum of Natural History ..... 29 Symmetry: On the cover of the Septem- Ash Enterprises ............................................... 98 ber 2016 Planetarian there was an image Audio Visual Imagineering ........................... 1415 of a spherical gas tank that hoped to become a planetarium one day. It is Bays Mountain Productions ........................ 44 fitting that the same sphere, now trans- BIG & Digital..................................................... 21 formed, graces our cover again. Shown California Academy of Sciences ............... 87 is the approach to the Galileum in Solin- Clark Planetarium ........................................... 77 gen, Germany, as experienced by guests Digitalis Education Solutions ......................53 during its the inauguration in July. Both Evans & Sutherland ...........83, outside cover courtesy of Walter-Horn-Gesellschaft. Fulldome Festival Brno .................................. 71 More about the planetarium appears in GOTO Inc. ...........................inside front cover International News on page 70. IPS 2020/Edmonton ...................................... 45 Metaspace.................................................. 61, 67 International Planetarium Society home page: Mirage 3D ......................................................... 95 www.ips-planetarium.org NSC Creative ................................................... 47 Ohira Tech/Megastar ......................................5 Planetarian home page: RSACosmos ........................................................7 www.ips-planetarium.org/page/plntrn Spitz, Inc. ......................................................9, 69 Spitz Creative Media ..............................39, 93 Sky-Skan ........................................................... 76 You Can Do Astronomy ................................ 13 ZEISS ......................................inside back cover www.facebook.com/InternationalPlanetariumSociety twitter.com/IPS_Planetarium Vol 48 No 4 December 2019 Planetarian 1 Off icersicers December 2019 Vol 48 No 4 President Mark SubbaRao Adler Planetarium Columns 1300 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60605 USA +1 312-294-0348 6 Under One Dome Sharon Shanks [email protected] 8 2020 is Almost upon us Mark SubbaRao 54 IMERSA Matters: Be part of IMERSA at IPS in Edmonton Carolyn Collins Petersen 56 From the Classdome: The two words that strike fear into Past President Shawn Laatsch the heart Jack Northrup Emera Astronomy Center 58 Seeking What Works: Words and communication 167 Rangeley Road Orono, Maine 04469 USA Jeanne Bishop [email protected] 62 International News Lars Petersen 72 41 South: Moas, kiwis, Takahē: critters of the hidden continent Haritina Mogoșanu 74 LIP Service: LIPS 2019: Onward and upward! President Elect Kaoru Kimura Karrie Berglund Japan Science Foundation/Science 14 PARTYcles Alex Cherman Museum 2-1 Kitanomaru-koen, Chiyoda-ku, 80 Tales from Dome Under: Songs in the key of X Tokyo, Japan 102-0091 +81 3-3212-8506 Tom Callen Fax: +81 3 3212 8443 84 Mobile News: Dome adaptationsMobile News: for Dome hot/bright adaptations climates for [email protected] hot/bright climates Susan Reynolds Button 86 Book Reviews April Whitt The Cosmic Mystery Tour Executive Secretary An Astronomer’s Book of Days (and Nights) Patty Seaton Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn Howard B. Owens Science Center 9601 Greenbelt Road 7888 AOutside Different Space: Point Your of View:number Dream one priority:big People!Ron Walker Lanham, Maryland 20706 USA 83 Calendar of Events LorisTim Ramponi Barry +1 301-906-5990 [email protected] 8492 LastA Different Light: Ah, Point the of questions View: You’re invited to April Whitt a one-of-a-kind conference Ron Walker 99 Calendar of Events Loris Ramponi Treasurer 100 Last Light: Ah, the questions April Whitt Ann Bragg Anderson Hancock Planetarium Marietta College 215 Fifth Street Marietta, Ohio 45750 USA +1 740-376-4589 [email protected] Director of Operations Don’t miss these online features! Stars competition, https://www.ips- Kristen Lepine Dos • If you’re still thinking about applying for planetarium.org/page/pagesofstars Santos Don’t miss these online features! Managing Matters “A Week with the GDP” and wondered • Marco Avales, who operates Planetario Aven- • If you’re still thinking about apply for “A 411 Richmond Street East, Suite 200 what it might be like, be sure to read Dereck tura in Costa Rica, the first portable plan- Toronto, Ontario Canada M5A3S5 Week with the GDP” and wondered what it [email protected] Demeter’s report on his experience. Go to etarium in that country, has developed might be like, be sure to read Dereck Deme- https://www.ips-planetarium.org/page/ “Virtual Visit,” a specialty role for digital ter’s report on his experience. Go to DemeterWeekinGermany to learn more. mobile planetariums. They use the spheri- Payments of membership • Reminder: the deadline to apply for "A Week cal canvas of the dome to also transport audi- fees and advertising invoices with the GDP" is 31 December. Go to https:// ences inside factories, to promote tourism, should be made to Ann Bragg www.ips-planetarium.org/page/Weekwithgdp and to experience places difficult to visit. Membership fees also can be paid • More year-end deadlines: "A Week in the Read more about his project at https://www. online on the IPS website United States," https://www.ips-plan- ips-planetarium.org/page/VirtualVisits etarium.org/page/WeekinUS; Pages of 2 Planetarian Vol 48 No 4 December 2019 Aff iliate Representatives European/ Mediterranean Planetarium Rocky Mountain Planetarium Association Association RMPA EMP Michele Wistisen Manos Kitsonas Casper Planetarium Eugenides Planetarium 904 North Poplar Street 387 Syngrou Avenue Casper, Wyoming APA ABP PLANed APLF AMPAC ASP APS 17564 P. Faliro 82601 USA Athens, Greece +1 307-577-0310 +30 210 946 9674 [email protected] +30 210 941 7372 fax [email protected] Russian Planetariums Association RPA Great Lakes Planetarium Association Yaroslav Gubchenko BAP CASC CPS EMPA GLPA GPPA PlanIt GLPA Fulldome Film Society Mike Smail PO Box 103 Adler Planetarium 60310 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 1300 S Lake Shore Drive [email protected] Chicago, Illinois 60612 USA www.apr.planetariums.ru