SHOW PACKAGE $895
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and 10 multi-panel images (all-sky, panoramas) in digital form on data CD, ready to make into slides.
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Script, installation and production notes, images list, acknowledgements, bibliography, resource list, and background information -- provided in printed form, as well as a PDF on the data CD.
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Running time: 30:02
Age level: General public
For planetaria at L-H-S Level 4 and above.
Science Education Standards info
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Plain English Copyright and Usage Statement
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A beam of light leaves the Andromeda Galaxy and travels across the void of intergalactic space. On a planet located in a nearby galaxy, intelligent life evolves. As the light speeds across the light years, over the course of centuries, the primitives on the planet form cultures and civilizations -- and begin to wonder about the universe surrounding them. Their awareness of the night sky increases, as the beam of light draws nearer to their planet. When the light reaches the Earth, some of the descendants of the early hunters have just escaped the bonds of their world's gravity, and visited the Moon. In modern times, scientific study of space help the planet's current inhabitants to understand the properties of light, and the ways that understanding shapes our further knowledge of the universe.
Illustrated concepts include:
- Light years and light speed
- A brief history of man's evolution and beliefs of the heavens
- Absorption and scattering of light by gas and dust in our atmosphere and galaxy
- Lunar laser ranging
About this production
With Light Years From Andromeda, we return to our roots. In 1980, we had attended some extremely uninspiring (and fortunately forgettable) planetarium show. Carolyn said, "Even I could write a show better than that." Mark said, "Okay, do it," and she did. Back then, we didn't have the visual production capability that we do now, so we offered Light Years From Andromeda, our first show to the planetarium community, as a script-and-soundtrack package only.
In this new version, Carolyn has polished the script; Mark has recorded all new music -- this time with digital fidelity, now that digital has been invented and synthesizers can play actual chords instead of single notes; and Tim Kuzniar and Michael Carroll have created more than 100 new artwork and graphics pieces to illustrate the show. Naturally, our narrator's voice is one your audiences will recognize -- and Michael Dorn's natural voice isn't too much different from his Klingon character Worf!
Miles or kilometers? You decide!
In some Loch Ness Productions shows, we've used English measurement units: 4-inch telescopes, 93 million miles, etc. People asked us, "Why are you using English measurements? Don't you know that metric is the language of science?" In other shows, we've used metric measurements. People asked us, "Why are you using metric measurements? My students don't think in kilometers." We try to explain that our shows play in countries other than the United States, and that metric really is what scientists around the world use -- but it is true the majority of our shows are presented to American audiences.
Light Years From Andromeda defines and discusses speeds -- of light and sound, and distances -- around the Earth, from the Earth to the Moon, Sun, etc. Naturally we have to use some form of measurement. So for this show, we provide both versions of the accompanying text/graphics images; and there are two soundtracks on the CD: one that uses miles, the other kilometers. This way you can choose whichever is most appropriate for your audiences.
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![[Dorn's pic]](dorn_t.jpg)
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