PLANETARIAN Journal of the International Planetarium Society Vol. 26, No.3, September 1997 Articles 5 Projections from Gallatin .................................................... Gary Likert 10 How Thinking Goes Wrong ....................................... Michael Shermer 17 Astronomy Link - A Beginning ........................................ Jim Manning 21 14th International Planetarium Conference ................................ IPS'98 Features 26 Opening the Dome .............................................................. Jon U. Bell 29 Planetarium Memories .........., .................................. Kenneth E. Perkins 31 Planetechnica: Shoestring Wire Management ......... Richard McColman 34 Forum ................................................................................. Steve Tidey 39 Book Reviews .................................................................. April S. Whitt 45 Mobile News Network ...................................................... Sue Reynolds 47 ',X/hat's New ...................................................................... Jim Manning 51 Gibbous Gazette ......................................................... Christine Shupla 53 Regional Roundup ............................................................ Lars Broman 58 President's Message ....................................................... Thomas Kraupe 62 Jane's Corner .................................................................... Jane Hastings " l1,c ZKPJ ;'\' jalltastic ... It IJrojec/x Ih e 11/ 0 0 1/ phases wilh (l rea/ism I 'lel 'a kllew Iw .'is ihle ;11 a plalletarium. l Is .wllIller sh e opells lip Ih e .~ k)' 11111£'1, beller for III tl1l)' .\'/lldellis. I dOl/ 't have to 1I'0r,)' about poillliug Ollt Sirius. all(/ 1I(1I1iug IIlI(f l /i e cla .~s flllable (() see ",/t al I 'm PO ;U(;Uf.: to . .. •J ;/11 lJ eaber. IJira lur Robel" II. j O/I1I .WJII P/a ll elllrill lll l.llkew()(}(/. 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'"', California tp://w 4 • • • motions of the heavens. J I I I I Theater of the Fantastic. That's how I char­ finally decided that Christmas 1996 was the acterize what has come to pass in a strange time. The dome described below was circular chamber behind a barn and other than the Star Theater toy of pla,nerarLUIJ(l, I had nothing with which to fantastic memory - of dreams out generate even test star images. One of the to touch me instead of the other way I had worried about was a around. After 30 years of dreaming ... and larj~e-€m(mgh hole in the southern pole to Home Planetarium Association members get a light assembly in. I had no eXl:>erien<:e worldwide me I can do this I metal. My father-in-law suggested have done it, my friends. I have created my the solution that was very simple: a cone own world, no, my own little universe. It is built. The thing is done. I have you to thank. I lay tonight in a darkened room! Mozart After 30 years of /:!I'''",',;::jWlli''Ill plays dreamily as the multi-hued sky above members worldwide telling me I can sports a blaZing, hazed yellow sun. As the friends. I have created my own music swells, this vision disappears, to be replaced by a fantastic A town faintly on the northern horizon, with shaped grinding stone on an electric drm phosphorescent barns and farmland to the shaft.