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Science Centre and Planetarium Wollongong’s Astronomy Discovery Night

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Amanda Kruger

At the end of May, The Science Centre and Planetarium held its Astronomy Discovery night. On the discovery nights, we open up outside of normal opening hours and run planetarium shows and live astronomy presentations, have telescopes set up, and … Continue reading →

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Sydney Observatory Manager Position

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Aussie Starman

Just in case some of you are not aware, the position of Manager for Sydney Observatory was advertised recently and applications close on 10 June 2015. — Mark Rigby https://jobsnsw.taleo.net/careersection/all_jobs/jobdetail.ftl?job=00003N21

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Starlight wins at the Fulldome Festival in Jena

Posted on June 2, 2015 by apsplanetarium

The Melbourne Planetarium is very pleased to announce that Starlight is joint winner of the prestigious Directors Award at the 2015 Fulldome Festival in Jena.  The jury decided to split the award between Starlight and Habitat Earth produced by the California Academy … Continue reading →

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Bendigo Planetarium News

Posted on May 29, 2015 by bendigoplano

Greetings from the Bendigo Planetarium! Recently we renewed our Memo Of Understanding with the Bendigo Astronomical Society (BDAS). Amongst other things, this agreement allows for monthly Sidewalk Astronomy nights to continue outside the building the planetarium is located, namely the … Continue reading →

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Apollo 13’s 45th Anniversary Event

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Aussie Starman

On April 11, I attended the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s Apollo 13 45th anniversary dinner and forum at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida. The function began with a cocktail party at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront attended by over 100 people. … Continue reading →

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Dazzled by the bright Southern Lights

Posted on March 20, 2015 by astrotanya

The past week saw a fantastic treat for aurora watchers. Generally it is the southern part of the country, Tasmania in particular, that sees the most impressive displays. But this aurora has been so intense that it was even seen … Continue reading →

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International Day of Planetaria

Posted on March 15, 2015 by warikl

Happy ‘International Day of Planetaria’ to everyone.  The ‘Day of Planetaria’ was first celebrated in Italy in 1990.  While this day is well recognised in Europe it has yet to really catch on in the United States or Australasia. However … Continue reading →

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Dawn eases into orbit around Ceres

Posted on March 6, 2015 by astrotanya

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is captured into orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres on Friday, March 6, there will be no fanfare in mission control. In fact, the spacecraft won’t even be in radio contact. There’s no need, because Dawn’s … Continue reading →

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What will Pluto look like?

Posted on March 5, 2015 by apsplanetarium

Way back in August 2005 I first started working at the Melbourne Planetarium.  I was brought in as an animator on Melbourne Planetarium’s very first, fully-rendered fulldome production ‘The Problem with Pluto’. At that time the debate was still raging … Continue reading →

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Plant Energy Biology

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Paul Bourke

A short fulldome piece was recently created for Plant Energy Biology at UWA. See http://paulbourke.net/exhibition/PEB/ Contains a number of visualisations from my team, nice fisheye timelapse, lovely music and so on … all on the “smell of an oily rag” … Continue reading →

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