New From Fiske Planetarium

Explorations 6: The Dawn Of Orion

From their production studio at the University of Colorado-Boulder, we've got the next in the Explorations series from the staff of Fiske Planetarium!

In The Dawn Of Orion, look into NASA's next steps toward the Moon with the Orion spacecraft, the Artemis Lunar Exploration program, and hear from astronaut Randy Bresnik about it.

Now available with  German soundtrack:

Earth's Wild Ride

By customer request!

From Bishop Museum

Wayfinders: Waves Winds and Stars

The 5,000-year story of voyaging in the Pacific

Sail on the deck of the voyaging canoe Hōkūle'a and explore traditional Polynesian navigation. Learn how to read the stars and interpret the winds and waves to navigate without modern instruments. This live-action film tells the story of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the recovery of the nearly lost art and science of traditional, non-instrument navigation in Hawai'i and the Pacific.

Wayfinders was produced in Hawai'i by Bishop Museum and 1001 Stories in collaboration with the Polynesian Voyaging Society.

Embark on this remarkable journey today!

Happy 5th Birthday to us!

Introducing... 2K streaming!

And week-long rental options!

Starting with Loch Ness Productions own shows, we're trying out our highest-ever streaming resolution: 2160x2160px fisheye movies! This doubles the 1080p size of our regular HD movies. (Our prewarped movies are already "2K": 1920px wide by 1080px high).

So if you have the bandwidth available, and projection equipment that can take advantage of the new movie sizes, please try them out and let us know how they look on your dome. Even if your projector isn't fully 2K-capable, downscaling a 2K movie should look nicer than upscaling a 1K movie. The enhanced resolution does have a higher price, but as always, trailers are FREE to play.

In addition to our standard 3-day rental periods, we're now offering 7-day rentals for the new 2K movies.

We've also refreshed some pages, and updated our FAQs.

Thanks for sharing the news with your colleagues — and thanks for five great years! Here's to the next five!

Effective August 15

Sorry to report that Mirage3D had decided to remove its shows from FULLDOME OnDemand.

New From Fiske Planetarium

Explorations 5: Apollo's Legacy

From their production studio at the University of Colorado-Boulder, we've got the next in the Explorations series from the staff of Fiske Planetarium to rent/stream!

In Apollo's Legacy, learn about the Moon rocks returned by the Apollo astronauts, and hear from a scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder about his role in the studies.

Now available with  German soundtrack:

EXPLORE

By customer request!

Science visualization show from Neurovision LLC added

Neurodome

Where in the mind does the spark of curiosity begin?

Journey from the outer limits of the universe down to Earth and into the brain to explore the "inner" frontier of human knowledge! In this fulldome show, produced through a collaboration of scientists, doctors, animators, and planetarium specialists, real brain images come alive as neuroimaging technology becomes your observatory to discover what makes us human.

The audience will explore imagery on scales ranging from the size of the entire head down to the sub-cellular scale, millions of times smaller. The film takes audiences flying through the skull to the outer layers of the cerebral cortex, exploring sub-components of the brain, wandering through neurons, and much more.

Throughout the journey, audiences will get an unprecedented view of our place in the universe, and in turn, where the universe is represented in our brain. For most people, the tour will be their first immersive trip through a real human brain... a truly mind-blowing experience!

Also available in  Spanish.

Now available with  German soundtrack:

Touching the Edge of the Universe

Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality

By customer request!

New From Fiske Planetarium

Two Short NASA Mission Shows Added

From their production studio at the University of Colorado-Boulder, we've got the next in the Explorations series from the staff of Fiske Planetarium to rent/stream! Each is less than 7 minutes long.

Big Science, Small Packages tells the story of CubeSats, NASA's mission for research spacecraft called nanosatellites. Learn about MinXSS, the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer, a solar physics mission operated primarily by University of Colorado Boulder students.

In Touching the Sun, learn about the Parker Solar Probe, the NASA robotic spacecraft launched in 2018 to study the outer corona of the Sun. Hear from a graduate researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder about his role in the mission.

Our first new show for 2019!

Expedition Reef

Hope for reefs in a changing world

The California Academy of Sciences’ award-winning 2018 planetarium show reveals the breathtaking beauty and biodiversity of coral reefs in exquisite detail — and the actions scientists are taking restore and preserve them.

Learn the secrets of the "rainforests of the sea" as you and your visitors embark on an oceanic safari to the world’s most vibrant — and endangered — marine ecosystems. Expedition Reef, narrated by Tony Award^® winner Lea Salonga, will immerse audiences in an undersea adventure, providing an up-close look at a part of our planet many people have never experienced. Discover how corals grow, feed, reproduce, and support over 25% of all marine life on Earth — while facing unprecedented threats from climate change, habitat destruction, and overfishing.

Dive in!

Here's last year's news, if you haven't been here for a while and want to catch up.

Mark C. Petersen, webmaster