About Carolyn Collins Petersen

For Loch Ness Productions:

  • Light Years From Andromeda (1980, revised 1996).

  • Saturn: Before Voyager and After (1981).

  • More Than Meets the Eye (1986).

  • Voyager 2 at Uranus (1986).

  • The Mars Show (1988).

  • Voyager 2 at Neptune (1989).

  • The Voyager Encounters (1989).

  • Larry Cat In Space (1990).

  • The Cowboy Astronomer (1992).

  • Hubble: Report from Orbit (1991).

  • Magellan: Report from Venus (1992).

  • More Than Meets The Eye — Expanded Edition (1993).

  • Hubble Vision (1994).

  • Sky Quest (1996).

  • Oceans in Space (1997).

  • MarsQuest (2000).

  • Hubble Vision 2 (2004).

  • Seasonal Stargazing (2007).

With Albedo Fulldome:

  • The Birth of the Solar System (2010).

  • Astronomy: 3000 Years of Stargazing (2011).

  • Chronicle of a Journey to Earth (2011).

With Mediendom Kiel:

  • Lars the Little Polar Bear (2012).

With Ogrefish FilmProduktions:

  • Into the Deep (2012).

With the International Dark-Sky Association:

  • Losing the Dark (2013).

With Creative Planet:

  • EXPLORE (2017).

With Rocco Helmchen:

  • Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality (2017).

For the Ralph Mueller Planetarium, Lincoln, NE:

  • The History of NASA (1983).

  • The History of the Mueller Planetarium (1983)

For Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL:

  • Worlds of Fire and Ice (1985).

For the McDonnell Planetarium, St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO:

  • Your St. Louis Science Center (1985).

  • Gateway to Infinity (1985).

  • Lightwaves (1986).

For the Astronaut Memorial Hall Planetarium, Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL:

  • Language of Vision (1987).

For the Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO:

  • Outbound: The Planet File (1988).

For the Charles C. Gates Planetarium, Denver, CO:

  • The Aztec Skywatchers (1992).

For the Junior Museum, Troy, NY:

  • The Spirit of Discovery (2002).

  • The Molecularium (2002).

For Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, UT:

  • Universe (2003).

  • Edge of Darkness (2015).

For the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA:

  • California's Altered State, 30 panels, (2008-2010).

For the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA:

  • Griffith Observatory Astronomy, 178 panels, (2005).

For the von Kármán Visitor Center, CalTech NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA:

  • JPL's History of Exploration, 28 panels (2010).

For Software Bisque:

  • Seeker. Wrote and narrated scripts for this software package.

For Starmap.fr:

  • StarMap Media. Wrote 32 original scripts for this iOS app.

  • Deep-Sky Wonders. Walter Scott Houston, with commentaries by Stephen J. O'Meara. (1998).

  • Video Astronomy (1st edition). Steve Massey, Thomas A. Dobbins, and Eric J. Douglass. (2000).

  • Editor, Skywatch Magazine. (1999-2001).

  • Associate Editor, Sky & Telescope Magazine. (1998-2000).

For The Denver Post Empire Magazine:

  • "The Lightning Makers". Voted one of the Year's Best 100 Science Stories; republished by Social Issues Research Corp. as part of their Earth Science Series of library reference materials. (1986).

For van Nostrand Reinhold Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics:

  • "The Satellites of Uranus and Neptune". (1991).

For Sky & Telescope Magazine:

  • "The X-Ray Sun". Review article about the joint US-British-Japanese Yohkoh Solar X-ray mission. (September 1993).

  • "The Universe Through Gravity's Lens". (September 2001).

  • "LOFAR: A Deep Look Through a Neglected Window". (July 2003).

  • "Noctilucent Clouds from Rocket Exhaust". (September 2003).

  • "Spotlight on Starbirth in Cassiopeia". (December 2004).

For Stardate Magazine:

  • "Nature's Late-Night Light Shows". (September/October 2002).

  • "Showers of Light". (November/December 2001).

For MIT Tech Talk:

  • "'Perfect Storms' upset Earth's atmosphere". (December 2003).

  • "Haystack Observatory celebrates 40th anniversary". Co-authored with Madeleine Needles. (October 2004).

For the Hughes Aircraft/Griffith Observatory Science Writing Contest:

  • "Magellan At Venus". (First prize winner, 1992).

  • "Collisions, Cannibals, Starbursts and Black Holes: What are Galaxies Coming To?" (Honorable mention prize winner, 1995).

For The Planetarium Primer, Rocky Mountain Planetarium Association:

  • C. C. Petersen. "Links Between Planetariums, Educators, and Scientists". (1998).

For Information Handling in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science Library series, Kluwer Academic Publishing:

  • C. C. Petersen, M. C. Petersen. "The Role of the Planetarium". (October 2000).

  • C. C. Petersen. "The Birth and Evolution of the Planetarium". (May 2003).

In the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society:

  • C. C. Petersen, M. C. Petersen. "Adventures in the Dome Trade". (Vol. 36, No. 5, 2004).

In the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series:

  • C. C. Petersen and J. C. Brandt. The IHW Large-Scale Phenomena Network and Observations of Comets to Support the ULYSSES Mission, Completing The Inventory Of The Solar System, Eds. T. W. Rettig and J. M. Hahn. (Volume 107, 1996).

  • J. C. Brandt, C. C. Petersen, T. B. Ake. The scientific impact of the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, Proceedings of a meeting held at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. (Volume 143, 1998).

In Planetary And Space Science:

  • J. C. Brandt, Y. Yi, C. C. Petersen and M. Snow. Comet de Vico (122P) and latitude variations of plasma phenomena. (Volume 45, 1997).

  • M. Snow, J. C. Brandt, Y. Yi, C. C. Petersen, H. Mikuz. Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2): Spectacular disconnection event and the latitudinal structure of the solar wind. (Vol. 42, 2004).

In Annales Geophysicae:

  • J. C. Brandt, C. C. Petersen, M. Snow, Y. Yi and the Ulysses Comet Watch. Cometary plasma tails as probes of latitudinal structure in the solar wind. (Volume 16, Supplement III, 1998).

In Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp, Boehnhardt H., Combi M., Kidger M. R., Schulz R. (eds):

  • J. C. Brandt, M. Snow, Y. Yi, S. M. Larson, H. Mikuz, C. C. Petersen, W. Liller. Large-Scale Structures in Comet Hale-Bopp Latitudinal Variations and Monster Disconnection Event. (2002).