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Planetarium Specialist - I would interpret that to mean you are the
in-house expert on all things planetarium - technical information as
well as astronomy. If I was a teacher or visitor and I was looking for
help setting up a planetarium or preparing lessons for my class, I'd
call your extension.
On the other questions - I have no answers.
Susan Dittus
Public Program Director
Discovery Center of Idaho
208-343-9895 ext 233
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Dear ISEN-L and DOME-L astronomy experts,
I am writing a 20-minute interactive show for our 40-seat planetarium
about the appearance of the sky 3.5 million years ago in Africa. I'm
taking all these motions into account: daily, annual, precession,
proper, and traveling around the Galactic Center with our local group. I
realize that this is going to be more of a guess than an exact sky, but
it's going to be a wonderful show.
Here are my questions:
- Do you have a planetarium show, or show activities, that talk about
how the sky has changed over millions of years? (Dinosaur shows could
possibly be useful, but not if they're just focused on the asteroid
impact theory).
- Do you know of a program to calculate the change in star positions
over 3-4 million years? Most of the planetarium programs I've looked at
only go to about 30,000-100,000 years ago.
- Has anyone taught this in a classroom? I might be able to adapt
something from that kind of lesson.
- Do you have a source for decently-authentic pre-Christian Ethiopian or
Sub-Saharan African star and sky myths?
And, while I'm asking a series of questions - what do you think my title
(Planetarium Specialist) means? We'd like to know if it conveys what
management wants it to convey.
Thank you, you're all invited to see the show here in Seattle in October
when it's finished!
Alice Enevoldsen
Planetarium Specialist
Pacific Science Center
206-443-2883
200 2nd Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
Life's Boring without Discovery!
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