Greetings,

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> wrote:
> [OT]
> The star projector cannot be used to project slides/images. It projects
> points of light through 100's of lenses.
> The secondary dome projector in Chennai is a regular high lumen projector.
> It projects the images/slides into a spherical mirror which reflects into
> the dome. The images are all pre-rendered as fish eye projections. The
> spherical mirror projects these fish eye images into the dome which creates
> the visual treat. Even if you get this setup, you need to create fish eye
> slides.
>
> In fact I am trying to help/persuade them to change this into a Linux based
> Stellarium presentation. They are stuck with old proprietary software for
> the shows.
>

Another opportunity for students explore as open-source project.

Regards,

Rajagopal
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