Vol. 42, No. 4 December 2013 Journal of the International Planetarium Society Real-time 3D Art in Mobile Domes Page 78 Ten years of digital in Athens Page 10 Articles IPS Special Section December 2013 Vol. 42 No. 4 12 IPS2014: Educating for the Future Zin Zhu 16 Minutes of the IPS Council Meeting, South Tyrol Executive Editor Sharon Shanks Lee Ann Henning Ward Beecher Planetarium 20 Bringing data to the dome: scientific visualization for Youngstown State University all planetariums One University Plaza The Science and Data Visualization Task Force Youngstown, Ohio 44555 USA +1 330-941-3619 24 Teaching the phases of the moon in a digital planetarium [email protected] Pierre Chastenay 28 Interaction and learning outcomes in live public Webmaster planetarium presentations Michael Neece, Amy Sayle, Alan Gould Portia Nleya, Todd Boyette Holt Planetarium 34 Who was Armand Spitz? Verne Rice, Joyce Towne Lawrence Hall of Science 42 Monsters in the family tree Jean Creighton University of California 49 Under One Dome: Ignazio Danti Simonetta Ercoli Berkeley, California 94720-5200 USA 50 Tracing paths of history: Rudolf Straubel, Walter Bauersfeld, and +1 510-643-5082 the projection planetarium Peter Volz +1 510-642-1055 fax 58 Alan Dyer retires after 40 years under planetarium skies [email protected] 62 “Father of laser light shows” reviews high-voltage career 86 Gary Meibaum Advertising Coordinator Dr. Dale Smith (See Publications Committee on page 3) Columns 80 Book Reviews ..........................................April S. Whitt Membership 87 Calendar of Events ......................................Loris Ramponi Individual: $65 one year; $100 two years 55 Educational Horizons ................................. Jack L. Northrup Institutional: $250 first year; $125 annual renewal 10 Guest Editorial ...........................................Lars Broman Library Subscriptions: $50 one year; $90 two years 4 In Front of the Console .................................Sharon Shanks All amounts in US currency 60 IMERSA News ............................................Judith Rubin Direct membership requests and changes of 66 International News. Lars Broman address to the Treasurer/Membership Chairman 88 Last Light ..............................................April S. Whitt 76 Mobile News ...................................Susan Reynolds Button 14 Partycles ...............................................Alex Cherman Printed Back Issues of the Planetarian 6 President’s Message . Thomas W. Kraupe IPS Back Publications Repository 56 Sound Advice .............................................Jeff Bowen maintained by the Treasurer/Membership Chair; 84 Waxing New ...........................................Sharon Shanks contact information is on next page Index Index of Advertisers A cumulative index of major articles is available on- allsky.de .........................................................77 line at www.ips-planetarium.org/?page=plntrn Astro-Tec ........................................................61 Audio Visual Imagineering ........................................65 Final Deadlines California Academy of Sciences ....................................71 March: January 21 Clark Planetarium/Hansen Dome ..................................57 June: April 21 Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc.. 9, 41 September: July 21 Electrosonic/Global Immersion. 5 December: October 21 Evans & Sutherland ........................39, 79, outside back cover GOTO INC ........................................inside front cover Konica Minolta Planetarium Co. Ltd ...............................23 Associate Editors NSC creative .....................................................31 Book Reviews Education Last Light R.S.A. Cosmos ..................................... inside back cover April S. Whitt Jack Northrup April S. Whitt Sky-Skan, Inc .................................................43-46 Calendar IMERSANews Mobile News Softmachine ..................................................27, 85 Loris Ramponi Judith Rubin Susan Button Spitz, Inc. .....................................................15,63 Cartoons International Spitz Creative Media ................................... 33, 59, 75, 81 Alexandre Lars Broman Cherman You Can Do Astronomy ............................................8 Zeiss, Inc .........................................................19 On the Cover: Data_Sea v2.0, by Michael Takeo Magruder with Drew Bak- International Planetarium Society home page: er, Johanna Jarvis & David Steele, 2013. © Takeo 2013. A real- www.ips-planetarium.org time 3D art installation exploring the relationship between astronomy and broadcast media. Supported by Discovery Planetarian home page: Dome Europe and the Department of Digital Humanities, www.ips-planetarium.org/?page=plntrn King’s College London. December 2013 Planetarian 1 Affiliate Representatives Association of Brazilian British Association Italian Association Russian Planetariums Planetariums of Planetaria of Planetaria Association Officers Alexandre Cherman Jenny Shipway Loris Ramponi Zinaida P. Sitkova Planetário do Rio de Janeiro Planetarium Manager National Archive of Planetaria Nizhny Novgorod President R. Vice-Governador INTECH Science Centre & c/o Centro Studi e Ricerche Planetarium Thomas W. 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