Vol. 43, No. 2 June 2014 Journal of the International Planetarium Society The many spheres of IPS 4-16 Yazakicho, Fuchu-shi, 5715 Susan Drive East, Tokyo 183-8530 Japan Indianapolis, IN 46250 Tel：+81-42-362-5312 Tel：+1-317-537-2806 Fax：+81-42-361-9571 E-Mail：[email protected] E-Mail：[email protected] Contact：Ken Miller URL：http://www.goto.co.jp Experience 8K Ad - Q1 Final.indd 1 4/21/2014 5:28:51 PM Articles June 2014 Vol. 43 No. 2 8 Revolve: Preparing for IPS 2016 Executive Editor Maciej Ligowski, Monica Malinowska Sharon Shanks 10 Stars come alive for the vision impaired Ward Beecher Planetarium Anna Rebecca Green Youngstown State University 14 Nehru Planetarium launches special show for hearing impaired One University Plaza Suhas B. Naik-Satam Youngstown, Ohio 44555 USA 16 How Big Bird became a fulldome superstar +1 330-941-3619 Mark Paternostro [email protected] 20 Audio-visual project turns the view upside down Webmaster Maja Egebo Schriver, Aase Roland Jacobsen 22 WPD, at 10 years old, continues to mature Daniel Audeon Alan Gould 24 The new Music of the Spheres Sylvie Vauclair Holt Planetarium 26 The effects of seductive details in an inflatable planetarium Lawrence Hall of Science Sean Gillette University of California 32 Glen Moore retires after 44 years of bringing science to Berkeley, California 94720-5200 USA Wollongong Greg Ellis +1 510-643-5082 33 Dale Etheridge: A Lifetime under the dome +1 510-642-1055 fax 34 John Quincy Adams’ role in American astronomy [email protected] John E. Ventre Advertising Coordinator 38 The Great Comet of 1811 left its mark Jean-Michel Faidit Dr. Dale Smith 58 Science Museum of Virginia team discusses how their new 8K (See Publications Committee on page 3) system changed the way they use “The Dome” Judith Rubin Membership 84 Alan J. Friedman, IPS past president Individual: $65 one year; $100 two years Institutional: $250 first year; $125 annual renewal Library Subscriptions: $50 one year; $90 two years Columns All amounts in US currency 81 Book Reviews . ......................................... April S. Whitt Direct membership requests and changes of 87 Calendar of Events. .Loris Ramponi address to the Treasurer/Membership Chairman 47 Data to Dome. Tom Kwasnitschka, Ka Chun Yu, Matthew Turk Printed Back Issues of the Planetarian 54 Digital Fulldome & Immersive Media News. .Judith Rubin IPS Back Publications Repository 52 Educational Horizons . Jack L. Northrup maintained by the Treasurer/Membership Chair; 4 In Front of the Console . Sharon Shanks contact information is on next page 62 International News. Lars Broman Final Deadlines 88 Last Light. April S. Whitt 76 Mobile News . ..................................Susan Reynolds Button March: January 21 18 Partycles. Alex Cherman June: April 21 6 President’s Message . Thomas W. Kraupe September: July 21 80 Sound Advice . ............................................Jeff Bowen December: October 21 84 Waxing New . ..........................................Sharon Shanks On the Cover: Celebrating the diversity of the International Planetarium Society: Clockwise, from upper right: Dennis Simopoulos, Index of Advertisers who just retired from the Eugenides Planetarium in Athens, Astro-Tec . ....................................................... 7 Greece; see more on page 65. Audio Visual Imagineering . ........................................51 Minnesota State University Planetarium Director Dave Wein- rich, aka “Laser Dave,” and the staff of the planetarium pre- California Academy of Sciences . ...................................71 sented shows to over 900 people during their Laserfest Clark Planetarium/Hansen Dome . 75 2014 event. Photo by Nicholas Watson. Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc.. 9 Sea plants in dome view at the innovative program Plants of Evans & Sutherland . 19, 73, inside back cover the Ocean, an audio-visual installation at the Steno Museum The Elumenati . .................................................. 15 Planetarium at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Photo tak- GOTO INC . inside front cover en by Peter Bondo Christensen; see more on page 20. Planetarium Torreón, Mexico, with its impressive Saturn ring Konica Minolta Planetarium Co. Ltd . 23 architecture. Photo by Eduardo Hernández; read more on Mirage3d. .5, 35, 61, 83 page 63. NSC creative . ................................................... 37 A 3D show in the Planetarium La Coupole, Helfaut, France. R.S.A. Cosmos . 57, outside back cover Courtesy of Julien Cadez/La Coupole. More about this fasci- SCISS . .......................................................... 29 nating museum appears on page 62. Vlad Dolgov attempts to manipulate the gloves of space- Sky-Skan, Inc . ................................................ 43-46 suit Orlan during activities at Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium, Spitz, Inc. 53, 55 Russia. Photo by Uliana Avdeenko; more on page 70. Spitz Creative Media. 31, 41, 79, 85 Fiske Planetarium’s retired optomechanical starball, now on You Can Do Astronomy. 50 display in the lobby of the Boulder, Colorado, planetarium. Zeiss, Inc. 69 Photo: Phil Groce. Center: Uniview render from a Worldviews Network presen- tation showing a panoramic photo “bubble” of Mt. Everest. International Planetarium Society home page: Photo by Ka Chun Yu; see more starting on page 47. www.ips-planetarium.org Background: Hubble Space Telescope image of a small part of the giant stellar stream of the Andromeda Galaxy. NASA, Planetarian home page: ESA and T.M. Brown (STScI) www.ips-planetarium.org/?page=plntrn June 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. 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