The IMERSA Summit is about two weeks away, and we at Loch Ness Productions are pleased to be sponsors of the event. We are founding members of the organization, and I’m working on the local organizing committee.
There are many good panel discussions, “best practices” presentations, fulldome videos (including one of ours called Losing the Dark), and a host of other events of interest to fulldomers. Mark will be participating in several sessions, while I’m hosting several producer presentations and a Clips session in the Gates dome at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Opening night at Fiske Planetarium. Courtesy Matthew Benjamin.
Of particular interest to us is Fiske Night. It happens on Sunday, March 9th and features a visit to Fiske Planetarium on the University of Colorado campus. It’s a great opportunity to see what 8K fulldome systems can do. This newly renovated facility features a Sky-Skan Definiti 8K fulldome system and a Megastar planetarium instrument that projects 22 million stars on the dome. The Megastar replaced the facility’s venerable Zeiss Mark VI star projector installed in 1976, now a featured exhibit in the planetarium’s lobby. Together, the Definiti 8K and Megastar systems provide a universe of content and flexible teaching choices for the university planetarium.
We’re pleased to be co-sponsors of Fiske Night, along with our colleagues at Electrosonic and Laser Fantasy. For us, it’s like going home. Back in the 1970s, we got our start at Fiske and learned how to work with the dome medium from some pretty incredible people. Much to the delight of our families and friends, we got married under the Fiske dome in 1978. I worked there as a producer and educational coordinator in the late 1980s before heading back to graduate school at CU.
We’re pretty excited that IMERSA attendees will have a chance to visit Fiske and see what a state-of-the-art theater it is. It began its life with some of the latest technology available at the time, and it’s great to see it continue that tradition. If you’re coming to IMERSA, don’t miss out on Fiske Night!
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