Comments on: Where (else) has the BA book been?

By: pumpkinpie

pumpkinpie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:07:14 +0000

Well, I’m a little late to this and a little bummed…..if this had been posted a few days earlier, I would have brought my book on my honeymoon to Portugal and Spain! I went to the Planetario Gulbenkian in Lisbon…Carolyn, I saw Hubble Vision there! Great show!

By: DigitalAstro

DigitalAstro — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:30:18 +0000

Phil,

Cool pictures!

I hate to pick nits, but a small correction needs to be made. The meeting in Australia was of the International Planetarium Society, not the International Planetarium Association.

http://www.ips-planetarium.org/

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:20:50 +0000

Hey… that’s where I purchased my copy of Phil’s book! I actually had a camera with me, but I did not use it as it was an automatic with electronics and motor drive, and there were signs everywhere warning us not to use “Electrical equipment” in the vicinity of The Dish. There were even signs in the car park requesting visitors to park and switch off as quckly as possible. Paradoxically, the visitor centre includes as displays a scale model of The Dish, which can be rotated and elevated presumably by electric motors, and one of the props from the movie, the control panel with Nixie tube displays of solar and sidereal time (I had to explain the difference to my father). Evidently these are shielded somehow.

By: Meags

Meags — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:20:00 +0000

Visiting the Parkes’ dish was where I bought your book originally!
And then stumbled across an interesting website…..

No photos, though.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:46:03 +0000

Phil, I can get a pic of your book at our observatory, peering through the telescopes.

And your pal Todd Slisher used to belong to our astronomy club when he was a youngin’.

By: ccpetersen

ccpetersen — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:29:06 +0000

Hey Phil,

Kewl pix.

You should have been there to enjoy Todd and me giggle like school kids as we plotted how we were going to take these pix and send them to you. I took his, he took mine.

And yes, of course I had a copy already, but the nice folks at the bookshop let us be camera hogs with the one you see. In return, I bought a couple of shirts and other assorted goodies.

Carolyn/spacewriter

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:36:31 +0000

My copy is in a storage somewhere Down Under