CAP 2005 - Garching

„Digital Planetariums“

by Thomas W. Kraupe

Planetarium Hamburg, Germany

Zeiss Mk.I - The first projection planetarium

1915 Oskar von Miller

Ordered for Deutsches Museum

1. A „ptolemy planetarium“

2. A „copernican planetarium“

Developed in Jena 1919-1923 by

Walter Bauersfeld, Carl Zeiss Jena

A brief overview: Planetarium 1923 - 2003

1923 First Planetarium

The „Wonder from Jena“

The first immersive simulator

The first „Virtual Reality“-Theater

The early years: Classic Astronomy no astrophysics

Terabytes from the skies...

A big flood of new digital data from new space missions and new generations of scientific instruments

The public needs guidance and company in an entirely new 3D-cosmos

„„HAYDEN SPHERE“HAYDEN SPHERE“

Planetarium Hamburg - an architectural icon

Planetarium Hamburg

largest „sky theater“ in Northern Germany

with an equipment unique worldwide

Der neue Sternensaal21m dome, 253 Seats

Projectors lowered

Immersion increased

Common direction of flight

Variable Stage area

All-digital Technolgy

A current planetarium theater

DIGISTAR 3

„Our Digital Cosmos-

Simulator“

Approx. 12 Mio Pixel

Image Generator: PC-

Cluster with High-End

Graphicsprocessor

Real-time 3D-database of

the Universe

Digital Planetariums - Completely Integrated Systems

Real-Time Astronomy Real-Time 3D Graphics

Pre-Rendered All-Dome Video

Cutting Edge Digital Planetarium Shows

• Seamless immersive visualisation

• spaceride from the „edge“ of the Universe to Earth

• virtual flight through the cosmos

• Real 3D-Data based on Research

• no „Hollywood“

• SCIENCE VISUALISATION vs. VISUAL EFFECTS

• real astronomers interacting

Flooded by visitors

A typical „day after“

10.00 Kaluoka´hina - das Zauberriff11.00 Unendliche Weiten12.00 Sonne, Mond und Sterne13.30 Nena - Madou und das Licht der Fantasie15.00 Kaluoka´hina - das Zauberriff16.00 Sterne der Pharaonen17.00 Aufbruch zum Saturn18.00 Kaluoka´hina - das Zauberriff19.30 Sternenkonzert: „Spirit Gospel“21.30 Dark Side of the Moon22.30 Aero - Jean Michel Jarre

A theater for all sciences - Microcosm

Microcosmos

Biocosmos: The Future is wild

Unendliche Weiten (Re-edit of Wonders of the Universe“)

Macrocosmos

Cultural Cosmos - Stars of the Pharaoes

Coming soon....„Expedition STARSHIP“

Audience Interactivity

Human Body Experience

The Edutainment Spectrum

Planetarium of the Future

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Television

Movie

Non interactive Pod

IMAX FilmTheme Park

Interactive Pod

Video Game

Digital Planetarium: Key potential in Education

allows for seamless changes in perspectives (in space, time, models..)

educates our Imagination

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Digital Planetarium – unique partners for CAP

o can present current models of the cosmos around us o Fast Growing userbase worldwide o common standards and Compatibility of immersive digital theaters

o compatablility with typical production tools used by observatories and Media (Image processing and 3d modelling)

o cross media and cross platform potential for CAP (linking books, DVDs, TV to real science)

Digital Planetariums and CAP – next steps

• a network of digital planetariums (f.e. Hamburg-Kiel coop) joint standards, productions and training/courses for future planetarians

• Shared resources – Metadata Libraries

• Broadband-network between digital planetariums and the research institutions (major observatories and agencies)

• real-time events accessing real science – real locations in real time (deep impact)

• Cooperation between IAU, IPS + ECSITE and ASTEC: Digital Theater as „spearheads“ for CAP

„We cannot touch the stars, but we can make the stars touch you“