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Tallying the World's Planetarium Attendance

Periodically, we summarize the annual attendance figures in our database and estimate a world-wide turnstile count for planetarium audiences. Posted pre-pandemic, January 2020.

A Planetarian's Primer for Fulldome

Our popular "beginner's introduction" to the fulldome field, in which we answer many questions we receive about this medium (often from those who work at classic, slide-based theaters).

IMERSA 2014:
Ingestion Indigestion

A Web version of our panel presentation, in which we discuss the ins, outs, and IT minutiae regarding the hard drives we write to and exchange.

IMERSA 2014:
Using After Effects to make fulldome movies for distribution

A Web version of our panel presentation, in which we discuss the ins, outs, and IT minutiae regarding the organization of our After Effects projects.

Some Thoughts On Planetarium Programming In The 21st Century

Summarized from a discussion panel presentation by Mark and Carolyn Collins Petersen, at the Southeastern Planetarium Association conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, 18 June 2003.