June 8-12, 2010 Mark your calendars for June 8-12, 2010 for an incredible experience! Bays Mountain Planetarium is hosting the 2010 SEPA Conference and we have a great schedule of events already in place. Our theme is “The Art of Storytelling.” Highlights of the meeting include our keynote speaker, Dava Sobel, presentations [...]
June 16-20, 2009 Thanks for joining us at SEPA 2009 in Nashville! Check our post-conference materials list for powerpoint presentations and the delegate list. See more photos here! Howdee fellow dome dwellers, Another school year is almost over, and summer will be here sooner than you think. We want to make sure [...]
Post-Conference Materials Have photos from the conference you'd like to share? Have a powerpoint? Send them to dotsandlines@gmail.com and we'll post them here. Delegate List - updated 6/28/09 Microsoft Word document PDF document Papers New Old Tools for Fulldome Editing and Compositing - Dr. Antonio Pedrosa, Navegar Foundation How No Child Left Behind [...]
Conference Hotel The conference hotel for SEPA 2009 is: Millennium Maxwell House - Nashville 2025 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard Nashville, TN 37228-1505 www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumnashville We have reserved a block of rooms at the guaranteed rate of $109 per night plus taxes, etc. This great room rate is available through May 16, 2009, so book [...]
Come to SEPA in Nashville early for a special presentation on Mayan astronomy by world-renowned archaeoastronomer Dr. Anthony Aveni and the Center for Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Aveni will use the new Sudekum Planetarium, GOTO Chiron Hybrid optical star projector seamlessly integrated with Evans and Sutherland Digistar 3, to recreate [...]
SEPA is being hosted by the new, way cool, world-class, state of the art Sudekum Planetarium that just opened in June 2008. The Sudekum Planetarium features the first GOTO Chiron Hybrid optical star projector outside of Japan seamlessly integrated with Evans and Sutherland Digistar 3. Delegates from across the United States will [...]
Schedule Details(revised May 13, 2009) Tuesday, June 16 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Dome Showcase: NSC Creative - "We Are Astronomers" Konica Minolta AVI mirage3D Global Immersion GeoGraphics 9:15 PM - 11:15 PM: Dome Showcase: Evans & Sutherland GOTO Hybrid planetarium demonstration - clip from Stars of the Pharaohs Sudekum Planetarium - "STARS" [...]
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, [...]
Ash Enterprises Astro-Tec Manufacturing Audio Visual Imagineering Bowen Technovation Digitalis Planetariums dome3D East Coast Control Systems Evans and Sutherland Digital Theater GeoGraphics Imaging Global Immersion GOTO Inc Konica Minolta Planetariums Laser Spectacles Loch Ness Productions mirage3D NSC Creative Rice Space Institute/e-planetarium Seiler Instruments/Zeiss Sky-Skan Software Bisque Space Telescope Science Institute Spitz Inc [...]
July 22-26, 2008 Lafayette Planetarium - Lafayette Natural History Museum - David Hostetter Dear Colleague: It’s almost time for this year’s SEPA conference, to be held at the Lafayette Natural History Museum & Planetarium in Lafayette, Louisiana! I hope you will be able to join us from Tuesday, July 22 – Saturday, July 26, [...]
