Vol. 42, No. 3 September 2013 Journal of the International Planetarium Society Ten years of digital in Athens Page 10 Articles September 2013 Vol. 42 No. 3 6 Beautifully Undaunted: Story of people behind the Allegheny Obervatory is beautifully done Executive Editor Sharon Shanks Sharon Shanks 10 10 years for Athens’ New Digital Planetarium Ward Beecher Planetarium Youngstown State University Manos Kitsonas, Alex Delivorias One University Plaza 14 When ingenuity was king: Seymour Planetarium Youngstown, Ohio 44555 USA celebrates 75th anniversary Richard Sanderson +1 330-941-3619 16 A portable planetarium for Kenya Kyle Doane [email protected] 20 How we do it: Comet tales with a comet nucleus Adam Thanz Webmaster Alan Gould 39 Under One Dome: Hoover-Price Planetarium, Canton, Holt Planetarium Ohio Dave Richards Lawrence Hall of Science 59 Italia: it was divertentissimo! Patty Thoth Seaton University of California 70 Alton Yarian Berkeley, California 94720-5200 USA +1 510-643-5082 +1 510-642-1055 fax Columns [email protected] 63 Book Reviews ..........................................April S. Whitt 71 Calendar of Events ......................................Loris Ramponi Advertising Coordinator 41 Educational Horizons ................................. Jack L. Northrup Dr. Dale Smith, Interim Coordinator 4 In Front of the Console .................................Sharon Shanks (See Publications Committee on page 3) 26 IMERSA News ............................................Judith Rubin 44 International News. Lars Broman Membership 72 Last Light ..............................................April S. Whitt Individual: $65 one year; $100 two years 6 Letter to the Editor .................................................. Institutional: $250 first year; $125 annual renewal 56 Mobile News ...................................Susan Reynolds Button Library Subscriptions: $50 one year; $90 two years 34 Partycles ...............................................Alex Cherman All amounts in US currency 8 President’s Message . Thomas W. Kraupe Direct membership requests and changes of 66 Waxing New ...........................................Sharon Shanks address to the Treasurer/Membership Chairman Printed Back Issues of the Planetarian Index of Advertisers IPS Back Publications Repository allsky.de ..........................................................31 maintained by the Treasurer/Membership Chair; contact information is on next page Astro-Tec .......................................................25 Albedo Fulldome .................................................. 7 Index Audio Visual Imagineering ........................................23 Bays Mountain ...................................................64 A cumulative index of major articles is available on- line at www.ips-planetarium.org/?page=plntrn California Academy of Sciences ...................................53 Clark Planetarium/Hansen Dome ...................................19 Final Deadlines Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc.. 33, 67 Evans & Sutherland ................................ inside back cover March: January 21 June: April 21 Global Immersion ................................................. 5 September: July 21 Google Lunar XPrize ..............................................42 December: October 21 GOTO INC ........................................inside front cover Konica Minolta Planetarium Co. Ltd ...............................45 Museum of Science, Boston .......................................69 Associate Editors Navitar ...........................................................21 NSC creative ................................................. 9, 57 Book Reviews Education Last Light April S. Whitt Jack Northrup April S. Whitt R.S.A. Cosmos ....................................outside back cover Sky-Skan, Inc .................................................35-38 Calendar IMERSANews Mobile News Loris Ramponi Judith Rubin Susan Button Softmachine ......................................................13 Spitz, Inc. ....................................................40, 65 Cartoons International Alexandre Lars Broman Spitz Creative Media ...................................17, 27, 43, 49 Cherman You Can Do Astronomy ...........................................30 Zeiss, Inc ........................................................29 On the Cover: International Planetarium Society home page: A beautiful view behind the dome of the New Digital Plane- www.ips-planetarium.org tarium in Athens. For the story of its first 10 years, see page 10. Courtesy Eugenides Foundation. 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