Workshops: Thursday June 18

Fulldome 101

4:00 to 5:30 pm, 90 minutes, capacity 100

Workshop and group discussion will focus on basics of fulldome hardware,
software, and content.

Dan Neafus, Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver, CO
Mark Peterson, Loch Ness Productions, Groton, MA

Kinesthetic Astronomy

4:00 to 5:30 pm, 90 minutes, capacity 30

Astronomy can be a moving experience in this workshop emphasizing physical models and other activities for you and your visitors.

Experience ways to totally engage teachers, students, and staff in immersive astronomy lessons that are aligned with national science education standards and rich in content and skills development. This out-of-dome approach is dubbed Kinesthetic Astronomy and was developed by Dr. Cherilynn Morrow and Michael Zawaski. Research supports this full-person full-body approach in helping learners at many levels achieve a good intuitive grasp of non-intuitive astronomy concepts. Join us for lessons on day and night, seasons, moon phases, and planetary orbits!

Duke Johnson, Clark Planetarium, Salt Lake City, UT

AstroFX audio, lighting and control system programming workshop

4:00 to 5:30 pm, 90 minutes, capacity 30

Jeff Bowen and Friends, Bowen Technovation, Indianapolis, IN

Hacking Planetarium Projectors: True Black with a $3000 or less video
projector

4:00 to 4:30 pm, 30 minutes, capacity 50

Derek Demeter,
Seminole Community College Planetarium, Sanford, FL

Tour Creation with Software Bisque’s Theater Suite

4:30 to 5:00 pm, 30 minutes, capacity 30

Richard S. Wright Jr., Software Bisque

Stellar Classification online

5:00 to 5:30 pm, 30 minutes, capacity 50

STELLAR CLASSIFICATION ONLINE – PUBLIC EXPLORATION (SCOPE) is a new
citizen science project developed at Pisgah Astronomical Research
Institute. The focus of this online public project is the classification
of stars via their spectrum a la Annie Jump Cannon for future
investigation. Amazingly, the majority of the stars included in this
project have never been classified. They exist in a moment in time on
glass plates preserved in PARIs Astronomical Plate Data Archive, located
on the PARI campus near Rosman, NC. New investigators are invited to
explore and develop their skill in stellar classification through this
new innovation in online astronomy.

Christi Whitworth, Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute,
Rosman, NC