SEPA eConference Day 1 7-30-21

12:45 PM 15m Zoom Entry
1:00 PM 5m 1:05 PM 10m
Abstract
Welcome Thanz Adam Bays Mountain Planetarium -
Kingsport, TN Welcome Presentation 1 Hostetter Dave Retired - Lafayette Science
Museum “‘Supermoons:’ Not
Completely Evil?” Sure, they’re goofy, maybe there’s a way to use “supermoons” to get people out under the sky looking
for reality instead of hype.
Milutin Milankovitch described Earth’s movements over thousands of years. He postulated that Ice
Ages and other long-term climate changes were due to the amount of ice melting during the Northern
Hemisphere summer. This talk is about the causes of the Milankovitch Cycles, i.e. variations in axial tilt,
precession, and orbital eccentricity. It will show that they do not predict the current global warming
trend.
1:15 PM 10m Presentation 2 Holmberg Carole Museum of York County “Long-Term
Changes in Earth’s
Climate” 1:25 PM 5m Vendor 1 Lewis Dale Astro-Tec Domes “Planetarium Dome
Screens by Astro-
Tec” Astro-Tec offers the highest quality planetarium domes in world. Join us for 5 minutes on Friday July
30th @ 1:25PM to find out what sets us apart.
INTUITIVE Planetarium, U.S.
Space & Rocket Center "Creating Web
Interactives Using
WorldWide
Telescope" WorldWide Telescope has a plethora of useful functionality for planetariums - newly added to the list is
website embedability. Explore how to create custom web interactives allowing individuals to continue
their planetarium experience virtually using WWT. Join U.S. Space & Rocket Center INTUITIVE
Planetarium Director, David Weigel, for a brief WWT web interactives tutorial and various use
cases. From zoomable imagery and panoramas to interactive tours, there are limitless possibilities for
your creativity.
Weigel
A1
1:30 PM
25m
David
Emmart and David
Weigel Carter American Museum of Natural
History and U.S. Space &
Rocket Center “OpenSpace:
Updates and Use
Cases” Hear from AMNH’s Director of Astrovisualization about recent updates to OpenSpace
(openspaceproject.com), an open-source platform for live programming in planetarium domes and
other public spaces, and for streaming online.
OpenSpace v0.17.0 was released earlier this month. See a short demo of new visualizations and
features, including the James Webb Space Telescope, exoplanet systems, and UI improvements.
Get ideas for how you can use OpenSpace from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s INTUITIVE
Planetarium Director. While closed to the public in 2020, the Rocket Center utilized OpenSpace for
planetarium-style tours live-streamed to Facebook. Now that the Rocket Center has reopened, it is
using OpenSpace for live programs on a video wall in its Saturn V Hall.
Lakey Ann Zeiss “UNIVIEW Open
Dome – New
Perspectives for
your Presentations” Imagine the dome as a huge monitor. Use this monitor for all kinds of presentations. UNIVIEW Open
Dome builds a bridge from any computer application to dome projection, in real time, in highest
resolution and with an absolutely smooth frame rate. The complex processes of multi-channel
projection with image splitting, warping and blending are efficiently handled by UNIVIEW on the basis
of system-specific configurations.
Presentation 3
Fri, Jul 30, 2021
1:55 PM 5m Vendor 2
2:00 PM 45m Break / Social
Notes
Combo Presentation
May be shorter to start
session A2 at 2:45 p.m.
"Using Pop Culture
to Build
Attendance" One of the biggest challenges we face at our museum, and I’m sure at your facility as well, is getting
people off the couch—getting people to leave the house and come visit the museum and planetarium
as a destination. So, how do we motivate and excite people to come see planetarium shows devoid of
in-vogue celebrities? How do we inspire people to come visit a museum that doesn’t have Instagram-
famous name recognition?
2:45 PM 10m Presentation 4 Lamm Jay Louisiana Art and Science
Museum 2:55 PM 5m Vendor 3 McConville Michael Cosm/E&S/Spitz "Building the
Future Together:
The Latest from
E&S and Spitz” This year, we’ve focused on helping planetariums reopen and reengage their communities. Join us for
updates on the LaunchPad initiative and bringing the best of Digistar and SciDome together for our
new integrated software solution.
3:00 PM 45m SEPA Business
Meeting Klimek Liz SEPA President SEPA Business
Meeting By-Laws changes, SEPA 2022 conference update and more!
3:45 PM 5m Vendor 4 Yager Ken Seiler Instrument “What’s New at
Seiler!” Find out what’s new with Seiler’s planetarium division.
3:50 PM 40m Social 4:30 PM - End
A2