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09-28-2009, 09:49 PM
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Next Commission
Planetarium would like an ISS (ceiling hanger). So ... off we go.
Alphonso's ISS would be spectacular - but I'm not willing to build that much detail and precision for something that's 15 feet in the air. So, to the NASA site to work up something with "desk model" detail. Also, big enough to be seen at a little distance. I'll start a thread on it shortly. Yogi  Initial cabinet display - they'll rearrange to suit current activities. 
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#72
10-16-2009, 08:09 PM
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Almost there
Dropped by the planetarium yesterday to figure out where to position the hardware to hang the Int'l Space Station. Looks like a pulley in the middle of the 30-40 foot ceiling and one on the wall to turn the line down to the tie off point - good thing I got 100 ft of rope. Model is done except for fiddling (dropped off at the site - it's danged awkward to transport and that also ends the fiddling so I can do something else).
In addition to the rocket garden and solar system tour set I build another Hubble (Ton's intermediate) and James Webb Space Telescope (downloads, here) for the planetarium.   Pretty well filled up their display cases - and it's getting them some good interest as students pass by. Next week we should hang the ISS, actually looks like we'll make it before they re-open on 26 Oct. Winding down a bit (fix lawn pump, scrub mildew from porch pillars and ceiling, etc.) - so I built a quick model of ESA's COROT space telescope (1:48 scale). COROT has 7 exo-planet finds, including a rocky planet just twice the size of the Earth (no word on Vulcans or Klingons yet ...). I'll drop it off at the planetarium to join the other telescopes.  And, so it goes. Yogi
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10-17-2009, 01:17 PM
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Excellent display of models, Yogi. Combined with the ISS, should bring on a lot of interest.
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10-18-2009, 05:30 PM
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Planetarium...space...telescopes.......space-telescopes!
So, filling in the time (cold and windy today, well, cold and windy for Florida anyway). Working my way through various downloaded and printed space telescopes to add to the Planetarium display.
Spitzer IR at 1:48 (half original size) from Spitzer Models    Straightforward build - boxes, cylinders, and conics. Parts fit was very good. No modifications or additions needed for this one. (note - my cutting mat marked with one inch squares) Next up the SWIFT Gamma Ray 'scope. Then I guess I need to work through the other great observatories (Chandra, Compton), another Kepler (IR replacement/improvement for Spitzer), and work up some other recently launched eyeballs (Plank, etc.). Yogi
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#76
10-19-2009, 06:48 PM
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BIG bangs
Thanks Ashrunner, Clashster, plugging along.
Just did the SWIFT gamma-ray telescope http://nasascience.nasa.gov/kids/the...t-paper-models . Simple model with fairly simple graphics. Changed the build in a few spots where the model/activity had tab-and-slot construction. Makes a nice display though - spent as much time pulling together the display/graphics as I did on the model ...   Model is a combined effort from the Public Outreach and Education sede di Merate, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, in Italy and the NASA Education and Public Outreach group at Sonoma State University, California, USA. It went up in 2004 and replaced the Compton satellite that was de-orbited in 2000 after a 9-year mission. SWIFT detects and quickly locates gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions known. It then observes, and cues others to observe, the explosion and its afterglow in a variety of wavelengths. In April of 2009 SWIFT and an international team of astronomers found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present age. The event, dubbed GRB 090423, is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen. Yogi Last edited by Retired_for_now; 10-19-2009 at 08:00 PM.
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#77
10-21-2009, 03:30 PM
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A Done Deal
Finished up a quick build of NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope - dropped off at the Planetarium today when I did the ISS install.
 Took a bit longer than I figured for the ISS installation - the assembly ran a little long but the rigging took the bulk of the time. The staff will be taking down most of the stars - kinda crowded up there now.  Good thing I brought 100 feet of rope - it really is a 40 foot ceiling! Yogi (nap time!)
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#78
10-26-2009, 03:50 PM
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Busy day!
PJC Planetarium re-opened for business today. Dropped off a couple more items to complete the current operational constellation at Venus (OK, Venus Express is the only one operating there, now - but the collection so far is way too heavy on US space probes, I need to design/build some more international probes from the Soviet/Russians, ESA, China, and India).
 Also did another Kepler - NASA model with added detail on the bus. I filled out the equipment boxes, antennae, and momentum wheels.    Yogi Last edited by Retired_for_now; 10-26-2009 at 07:11 PM.
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10-26-2009, 03:58 PM
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Even busier
And - the major insanity here. ISS display with the original crowd of stars pruned and (inflatable) planets added.
   Any builders near a planetarium should be able to find a ready spot to display real-space (and Sci-Fi!) models. Give it a try.  Lots of excited viewers!  Yogi
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10-26-2009, 05:40 PM
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Yogi.... you got some "excited viewers" here too - brilliant display
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