Sunday, April 02, 2006

 

Planetarium Shows

This is from Friday.
I've been working on a Planetarium show for the Hall of Science. It was a crazy venture, because it was something that the museum had written a title for, and then a small blurb, but had done no research on. The title: The Age of Aquarius Planetarium Show. This was a big challenge, because the people who came up with the idea of the show, never really looked into what that would consist of. We got a new projector at the museum for our little planetarium, so that was a big help, and with the help of the Director of Science Programs, and one of my associates, we came up with a pretty good show about constellations- with a touch of Aquarius. Aquarius was actually Ganymede (a boy), who Zeus fell in love with, and swooped into the sky to "service the gods." Also, we're not really dawning in the age of Aquarius, like the song said, but are sort of approaching it in the next 6 years, due to a planetary shift called Precession. It was a good venture (though a little stressful) because it helped me learn a lot about astronomy, which I've always felt was a distant subject that I couldn't master.

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