Vol. 44, No. 2 June 2015 Journal of the International Planetarium Society Data visualization focus - starts on Page 26 Articles June 2015 Vol. 44 No. 2 8 A Guide to Conducting Educational Research in the Planetarium Executive Editor Julia D. Plummer, Shannon Schmoll, Ka Chun Yu, Chrysta Ghent 26 Specialized teams create compelling animations to visualize Sharon Shanks stories of science Judith Rubin Ward Beecher Planetarium 32 Working with HST data at home Mike Heim Youngstown State University 34 Why NSC’s We Are Astronomers focuses on the people side One University Plaza of astronomy data Paul Mowbray Youngstown, Ohio 44555 USA 36 ART 360: Bringing art to fulldome Carolyn Collins Petersen +1 330-941-3619 40 Hopping on the cloud to sharable media [email protected] Joe Kleiman, Judith Rubin Webmaster 65 Donna Pierce: The grand Lone Star State lady Paige Skinner Alan Gould 72 Pages of Stars Winner: The Rabbit in the Moon Andy Kreyche Holt Planetarium 82 How We Do It: Kinesthetics for the grade-schoolers Lawrence Hall of Science Keith Johnson University of California 84 Celebrating the International Year of Light Sharon Shanks Berkeley, California 94720-5200 USA 89 Tributes: Lonny Baker, Richard Knapp, Robert Reilly, James Orgren +1 510-643-5082 +1 510-642-1055 fax [email protected] Columns Advertising Coordinator 49 Bard Spiral ................................................Chuck Rau Dr. Dale Smith 78 Book Reviews ..........................................April S. Whitt (See Publications Committee on page 3) 91 Calendar of Events ......................................Loris Ramponi Membership 44 Data to Dome .........................................Mark SubbaRao 50 Digital Dome and Beyond .....................Carolyn Collins Petersen Individual: $65 one year; $100 two years 54 From the Classdome .................................. Jack L. Northrup Institutional: $250 first year; $125 annual renewal 4 In Front of the Console .................................Sharon Shanks Library Subscriptions: $50 one year; $90 two years 56 International News. Lars Petersen All amounts in US currency 92 Last Light ..............................................April S. Whitt Direct membership requests and changes of 68 Mobile News ...................................Susan Reynolds Button address to the Treasurer/Membership Chairman 30 Partycles ...............................................Alex Cherman Printed Back Issues of Planetarian 6 President’s Message . .Joanne Young IPS Back Publications Repository 74 Seeking What Works. .Jeanne Bishop maintained by the Treasurer/Membership Chair 86 Waxing New ...........................................Sharon Shanks (See contact information on next page) Final Deadlines March: January 21 Index of Advertisers June: April 21 Astro-Tec ....................................................53 September: July 21 Audio Visual Imagineering .....................................55 December: October 21 California Academy of Sciences ................................ 15 ChromaCove .................................................87 Clark Planetarium/Hansen Dome ...............................79 Associate Editors Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc.. 81 Book Reviews Digital Dome International Evans & Sutherland ...................................5, 13, 61, 73 April S. Whitt and Beyond Lars Petersen Carolyn Fiske Fulldome Film Festival .....................................11 Calendar Collins Petersen Last Light GOTO Inc. ...................................................37 Loris Ramponi April S. Whitt Classroom Konica Minolta Planetarium Co. Ltd ............................ 25 Cartoons Education Mobile News Magna-Tech Electronic Company. 83 Alexandre Jack Northrup Susan Button Cherman, Metaspace ...................................................67 Chuck Rau Education Sound Advice Mirage3d ..................................................21, 63 Committee News Jeff Bowen Data to Dome Jeanne Bishop Navitar ........................................................31 Mark SubbaRoa NSC Creative ..................................................17 Reef Distribution .......................................23, 69, 85 On the Cover: R.S.A. Cosmos .............................88, outside back cover The autumnal equinox inside the Pantheon, a building in SCISS ..........................................inside back cover Rome, built during the reign of Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) and Sky-Skan, Inc ..............................................45-48 rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD. The building is circular and has a concrete dome with a central opening Spitz, Inc. ..................................................7, 43 (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was Spitz Creative Media ................................ 19, 39, 75, 77 built, the Pantheon’s dome is still the world’s largest unre- You Can Do Astronomy ........................................80 inforced concrete dome. Courtesy of Marzia Spinelli. Fore Zeiss, Inc .......................................inside front cover more, see International News/Italian Association of Planetar- ia, on page 57. 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