A1D6.9
Name: Solar Week & Planetarium Show
Lead Beneficiary: UGOE
Beneficiaries involved: ROB, UNIGRAZ, UOulu, PMOD-WRC, OBSPARIS, KO, CNRS, SRC-PAS, UGOE, HVAR
Due Date: Month 30 (May 2012)
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Goal
We will create a European planetarium show devoted to the Sun. This show will be the central part of an Outreach Solar European Week in 2010 planed in all the participating countries. For maximal impact, it will be translated in all the languages of the participating countries. It will make a tremendous use of European solar data, especially SOHO and of course STEREO. Three planetariums have already been approached, in Hamburg (Germany), Vaulx en Velin (France) and Brussels/Heizel (Belgium).
Progress so far
UGOE (Volker Bothmer)
The German proto-type productions "Unsere Sonne" and "Die Sonne in 3D" have been developed through the collaboration of UGOE and Planetarium Hamburg. The full dome version of "Unsere Sonne" is shown at Planetarium Hamburg and in mobile domes placed in Goettingen during special events for the IAY 2009. HDTV versions on bluray discs and of lower resolution on DVDs have been established and shown to several audiences (schools, government, space agencies). The shows will be optimised during the run-time of the project.
ROB (Petra Vanlommel)
A space weather planetarium show is under preparation at the Brussels/Heizel planetarium in both Dutch and French.
CNRS (Jean Lilensten)
1) Planeterrella
The Planeterrella is an Aurora simulator that allows to picture in a very dramatic way the relationships between the Sun and the Earth upper atmosphere. It fully falls inside the SOTERIA goals. Since the start of SOTERIA, it has been on demo at least four times a month. A copy has been made at the Toulouse Observatory and at the Meudon-Paris Observatory. A copy is under way in the biggest science museum in France (Palais de la Découverte, Paris). Contacts have been taken to build one in Bern (Switzerland) and University of Leicester (UK). A web site both in French and English has been achieved with the SOTERIA logo in the “partner” page (http://planeterrella.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr). It has been shown on the sedond TV channel in France (“fabuleuse experience”, October 9th, 2009) and will be shown longer in the second German TV channel in spring next year.
2) Opera de l’Univers
This project is directly linked to the SOTERIA goals. In the MoU, we planned to make a planetarium show on the Sun. Contacts had been taken with Lyon Planetarium to use their experience for an ambitious project which will be interfaced with the activities of the other planetaria. There is no planetarium in the southeast quarter of France. The “Opera de l’Univers” will compensate this lack. This building will include a numerical planetarium but also demonstrations of experiments on all the sciences developed at the Grenoble Observatory: Geology, glaciology, climate, seismic and so on. A big city of the suburb of Grenoble (Pont de Claix) is leading the project while 2 researchers from the Grenoble Observatory are at the origin of the scientific project and have a mandate from the university and CNRS to follow it until completion. SOTERIA is present from the beginning of the project through J. Lilensten.
3) Journée du Soleil
From the SOTERIA goals, there was the idea to set up some international event around the Sun. This is under way now and will be the “International sun festival”. The leadership is shared between ESTEC (J.P. Lebreton), SWWT (N. Crosby), SOTERIA (D. Berghmans and J. Lilensten) and COST ES803 (V. Zigman). The first edition will be in June 2010. Already more than 10 countries plan to participate.
Problem areas
A refined specification of the end product seems necessary.
Suggestions for spin-off, collaboration or improvement
It is recommended to have a joint meeting to improve specifications of the end product.
