Orbiter at Planetarium show

[ar81]

Last saturday (december 8th, 2007) a star show took place at Planetario de San José in Costa Rica, featuring music of
Bruce Callow and Pablo Luna.
Here is the news coverage...
http://www.nacion.com/viva/2007/diciembre/08/viva1344467.html

An orbiter demonstration took place before and after the show.
UK ambassador attended the show.
He was very impressed with Orbiter.

Sieji Mochizuki, the man who invented the planetarium projector was there too.
He loved Orbiter.

I dream about the day when we can see Orbiter projected on the dome of a Planetarium.

[ar81]

Professor Sieji Mochizuki will be downloading Orbiter as soon as he returns to Japan.
Dan's site is among the links I provided to him.

[James.Denholm]

Awesome. Go Pablo!

[ar81]

The projector used by Planetario de San Jose is mechanical.

But the latest planetariums are adopting digital systems using one or two video projector with ultra wide angle
projection lens called fisheye lens. That system is able to project images to whole dome screen.

I can only dream about the day when we see Orbiter projected in a Planetarium.
I might like to suggest OVP people to consider an interface for Orbiter so it can be done.
I have already sent an email to Professor Mochizuki and Martin, to provide them each other email address, so they
can exchange words about it.

On a side note...
The asteroid #21089 was discoverd in Feb. 1992 by worldwide famous comet hunter Mr. Tsutomu Seki, discoverer of
the Comet Ikeya-Seki.  In 1965 which is the brightest comet in 20th century.  He discoverd the asteroid by using 60cm
reflector telescope that Mochizuki designd for him, so he named it as "mochizuki".

See
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=21089;orb=1



Post Edited ( 12-11-07 19:48 )