Cybersphere: Playing in September

There is still one more Saturday in August (the 25th) for you to see Lamps of Atlantis (2&7 pm), Laser Spirit (3&8 pm), and Laser Hypnotica (4&9 pm), so come on out to see them before they go away for awhile. Here’s what will be playing next month!

Showing during September 2012 on Saturdays in the Cybersphere Digital Theater
– Note: The Cybersphere will be closed on September 29th –

Secret of the Cardboard Rocket

2:00 & 7:00 PM | Rated G | Tickets: $5 | Full-Dome Animation

One of the most popular space journeys for children and their families has been “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket.” Thanks to new tools and talent at the Clark Planetarium, you’ll see and feel the highest levels of detail and animation of any planetarium in the world. In the most dynamic fashion possible, the young star travelers are back to show you what could only be dreamed of before. From the boiling surface of the sun… to the icy rings of Saturn… children of all ages will be mesmerized by the incredible scenery in motion that only the Clark Planetarium can offer.

Laser Pop

3:00 & 8:00 PM | Rated G | Tickets: $6 | Musical Laser Show

1) Pop (N’Sync)
2) Get This Party Started (Pink)
3) Beatles Medley (The Beatles)
4) I’m A Believer (Smashmouth)
5) Desert Rose (Sting)
6) Beach Boys Medley (The Beach Boys)
7) Cosmic Thing (B-52s)
8) Digital Get Down (N’Sync)
9) Kryptonite (3 Doors Down)

Laser X

4:00 & 9:00 PM | Rated PG | Tickets: $6 | Musical Laser Show

1) Lost (Stabbing Westward)
2) Bulls on Parade (Rage Against the Machine)
3) Zero (Smashing Pumpkins)
4) Park Avenue (Girls Against Boys)
5) Monkey Wrench (Foo Fighters)
6) Would (Alice in Chains)
7) Push It (Garbage)
8) Sunshower (Chris Cornell)
9) Guilty (Gravity Kills)
10) Shame (Stabbing Westward)
11) Block Rockin’ Beats (Chemical Brothers)
12) Du Hast (Rammstein)
13) More Human Than Human (White Zombie)

CyberSphere: November-December 2008 Schedule

2:00 PM – Mystery of the Christmas Star

3:00 PM – Laser Holidays

7:00 PM – Mystery of the Christmas Star

8:00 PM – Laser Holidays

9:00 PM – Christmas Laser Fantasy (Featuring Mannheim Steamroller)

D2 full of holes?

I’ve noticed a few “blank” spots while D2 is projecting. It is highly possible it is a problem with the new CRT tube. We’ll have to keep an eye on it. There just might not be anything we can do about it.

Digistar 2 Back in Action

After well over 3 months without the use of the old Digistar 2 system, we finally received a replacement CRT tube. The reason for it taking so long is that the last company to make them, no longer does, and the new company that picked it up, had only recently started attempting to create them… and needless to say, they were failing horribly.

Well anyways, we have it in and installed. We gave it some test running and it works. Just gotta to get it focused and such. Of course, we will be keeping a close eye on it in the coming days. For now, our laser shows can finally be enhanced by its digital goodness, cause straight up laser… well, it’s boring as hell.

Cybersphere: October Schedule

On Saturdays during October:

2:00pm – The Future is Wild
3:00pm – Fright Light
7:00pm – The Future is Wild
8:00pm – Fright Light
9:00pm – Nightwalk

Work Computer HD Failure

The hard drive in my computer at work has failed. This computer itself is around 9 years old, though it has received some upgrades over the years, it was time for the hard drive to go. It had a good run. Now we have two options: Simply replace the hard drive in the computer or replace the whole computer. Given its age, we are leaning towards the latter, given we can acquire the funds for it.

We have two options with this choice: Buy all the part individually and assemble it ourselves or just pay someone else to build it for us. Now, I have never built a computer myself; whether it be because of laziness or unwillingness to try. I’ve always been more of a software guy, though I do understand the parts and how to put them together.

Basically, we either choose to do it ourselves and risk screwing something up or letting somebody else do it and if something goes wrong, they have to fix it. We’ll decide soon I suppose.

Journey to Infinity

One of our goals here at the Cybersphere is to convert the older planetarium shows that use sorely outdated equipment such as 35mm projector into a newer system. This system is of course Evans and Sutherland’s Digistar 3 projection system. For those that don’t know, this system uses 6 projectors that are positioned around the dome to project full motion video seamlessly across the entire dome.

We been working on converting the first of our older shows, Journey to Infinity, for use in Digistar. We are of course, updating things where possible. We want it to be a massive improvement over what the show originally was. It has been an awesome learning experience and is just simply fun to work with. So far, we’ve made decent progress on the show and have learned a lot. Every step we take moves farther and farther along.