[Stellarium-pubdevel] Report about 4th small planetarium conference

[Johannes G. <joh...@gm...>]

Dear developers,

On Friday I had a presentation in Bratislava as announced before.
Everybody was very nice to me, I did not have to pay the conference
fee and was even invited for Lunch.

I talked with Sergey Kudryavtsev, the project manager of
Redshift. He has made and published good ephemeris for the
moon and might point me to other good ephemeris data.

I have met Miles Allen from Cosmodome, who distributes Swinbourne
Mirrordome systems. Since stellarium version 0.8 they do not use
a modified stellarium any more, instead they use the ordinary
stellarium together with an extra software, that distorts the
image of the first graphic head onto the second graphic head,
which is connected to the monitor. In my opinion this settles
the license issue. Miles Allen was very kind to
me and let me use his equipment (dome, mirror & projector)
together with my own computer in order to stellarium 0.9
spheric mirror distortion. Which worked fine.
He also gave me a combined ballpen, laserpointer and flash
light for a present.

There was no fishey planetarium projector in action,
but a saw a little of the portable starlab in a starlab
dome, which was not very impressing to me. Both the
projector and the dome.
Later in the day I also answerd questions of a couple of
interrested people who want to build their own spheric
mirror system.

All in all it was very nice and funny. Instead of the tour of
Bratislava castle in the rain I would rather have talked with
the people and seen more of the starlab, but this just was not
possible.

Johannes


On 2007.09.03 23:54:14 CEST, Johannes Gajdosik wrote:
> Dear developers,
>=20
> On Friday I am going to give a presentation at
> the 4th small planetarium conference in Bratislava,
> which is quite near from Vienna (70 minutes by train).
>=20
> I am planning to talk about how to parameterize for dome
> projection: fisheye and spheric mirror. Right after
> my talk there is planned to be a presentation of
> Redshift6 (commercial desktop planetarium).
> And there will be Miles Allen from "Cosmodome", with
> his inflatable mirrordome system. I might even be allowed to
> try to run stellarium in the cosmodome, which seems
> to be the commercialized version of Swineburne Mirrordome.
> I am really curious what will happen. I suppose that in the
> meantime they do not use a modified stellarium version any more,
> but some OpenGL desktop similar to Compiz or Beryl.
>=20
> If you have any hints, suggestions or wishes about my attending
> of the conference in Bratislava, please tell me. I will of course
> mention digitalis education.
>=20
> Yours,
> Johannes