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Ott Planetarium Productions
Makers of Fine Star Shows for Small Planetaria Since 2005.
Download our PDF catalog (12 MB, lots of pictures), or browse the page below.
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Cosmic Journey
Tour the cosmos with astrophysicist, Stacy Palen as your guide. This leisurely cruise through space and time is sure to please!
40 min, Age 7+
E-Mail spalen@weber.edu for licensing information.
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The Great Space Race: Special Edition
Now available, just in time for the 50th anniversary of the start of the Space Age! You may have seen Apollo 13, you may have seen The Right Stuff, you may even have seen From the Earth to the Moon, but you've never seen the story quite like this! Full-dome imagery, animations and dynamic sound make this an immersive experience like none other. Written by a local high school student, visualized and produced by Weber State University undergraduates, this is the first full-length show to take advantage of our new digital capabilities!
40 min, Age 7+
E-Mail spalen@weber.edu for licensing information.
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AstroOtters!
National Astronomy Core for Grades 5-8
This is THE Astronomy program for every state in the union! There are over 40 modules covering a wide variety of Astronomy topics for grades 5-8. We can bundle and ship the modules for your state's core curriculum, or you can order them á la carte!
Also: have a look at these K-12 Astronomy Activities for ideas on enhancing your students' learning experience!
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Grades 5-6 & 7-8 available now!
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| Module Topic
| Grades 5-6
| Grades 7-8
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| 1
| Inner & Outer Planets
| 14:45
| 14:45
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| 2
| Seasons & Earth's Tilt
| 6:15
| 6:30
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| 3
| Properties of the Sun
| 3:45
| 5:30
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| 4
| Moon Properties
| 6:15
| 6:15
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| 5
| Earth's Orbit
| 3:00
| 3:30
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| 6
| Moon Phases
| 4:15
| 5:00
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| 7
| Planet Properties
| 4:00
| 4:00
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| 8
| Gravity! (\/)(^_^)(\/)
| 6:00
| 6:30
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| 9
| Earth-Sun Distance
| 4:30
| 4:30
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| 10
| Asteroids, Comets, Meteors
| 6:00
| 6:00
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| 11
| Solar & Lunar Eclipses
| 6:15
| 6:45
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| 12
| The Moon & the Tides
| 3:00
| 4:30
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| 13
| The Stellar Cycle
| 6:30
| 8:15
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| 14
| Galaxies
| 4:45
| 5:00
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| 15
| From the Big Bang to the Solar System
| 8:15
| 8:15
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| 16
| Organization of the Universe
| 2:15
| 2:15
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| 17
| Rotation & Revolution
| 3:45
| 3:45
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| 18
| Distances in Space
| 4:45
| 5:30
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| 19
| The HR Diagram
| 4:00
| 4:45
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| 20
| Star Maps & Constellations
| 7:45
| 7:45
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| 21
| Our Place in the Galaxy
| 2:15
| 2:15
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| 22
| Solar Sys. Exploration
| 6:00
| 7:00
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| 23
| Motion of the Sky
| 3:30
| 3:30
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| 24
| Stellar Fusion
| 3:45
| 4:30
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| 25
| Technology from Space Exploration
| 3:15
| 3:15
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| 26
| Space Careers
| 3:00
| 3:00
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| 27
| Solstices & Sun-Earth Distance
| 2:15
| 2:15
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| 28
| Motion of the Universe
| 6:15
| 6:15
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| 29
| Stellar Spectroscopy
| 4:15
| 4:15
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| 30
| Objects in the Sky
| 3:15
| 3:15
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| 31
| Space Telescopes
| 8:00
| 8:30
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| 32
| Star Distance & Brightness
| 3:45
| 3:45
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| 33
| The Light Year
| 2:45
| 3:15
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| 34
| Deep Sky Objects
| 6:15
| 6:45
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| 35
| Geocentrism vs. Heliocentrism
| 7:00
| 7:00
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| 36
| Earth and Moon are Round
| 2:45
| 2:45
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| 37
| Apparent Motion of the Sun
| 1:45
| 1:45
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| 38
| Aurorae
| 2:45
| 2:45
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| 39
| Earth's Asteroid History
| 6:15
| 6:15
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| 40
| Time from Sky
| 6:15
| 6:15
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| 41
| Radiating & Reflecting Bodies
| 2:15
| 2:15
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| 42
| The North Star
| 3:45
| 3:45
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| 43
| Night Sky Culture
| 4:15
| 4:15
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E-Mail spalen@weber.edu for licensing information.
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AstroOtters Jr!
National Astronomy Core for Grades K-4
This is THE Astronomy program for every state in the union! There will be 28 modules covering a wide variety of Astronomy topics for grades K-4. We can bundle and ship the modules for your state's core curriculum, or you can order them á la carte!
Also: have a look at these K-12 Astronomy Activities for ideas on enhancing your students' learning experience!
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Keep an eye on this list - we light up new ones from time to time!
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| Module Topic
| Grades K-2
| Grades 3-4
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| 101
| Sun Properties
| 3:15
| 3:45
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| 102
| Objects in the Sky
| 3:00
| 3:00
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| 103
| Moon Phases
| 5:30
| 5:30
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| 104
| Moon Properties
| 5:00
| 6:00
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| 105
| Apparent Motion of the Sky
| 3:00
| 4:30
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| 106
| Earth's Orbit
| 3:00
| 2:30
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| 107
| Apparent Motion of the Sun
| 2:00
| 2:00
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| 108
| Our Solar System
| 4:45
| 5:15
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| 109
| Rotation & Revolution
| 2:30
| 3:45
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| 110
| Seasons & the Earth's Tilt
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| 6:00
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| 111
| Star Maps
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| 6:30
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| 112
| Earth & Moon are Round
| 2:30
| 2:30
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| 113
| Earth's Place in the Solar System
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| 4:00
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| 114
| Planet Characteristics
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| 12:30
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| 115
| Space Exploration
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| 6:30
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| 116
| Star Cycle & Properties
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| 6:30
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| 117
| Eclipses
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| 7:00
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| 118
| Star Distance & Brightness
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| 4:30
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| 119
| Asteroids, Comets, & Meteors
| 6:00
| 6:00
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| 120
| Stellar Fusion
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| 3:45
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| 121
| Technology from Space Exploration
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| 2:30
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| 122
| Time from Sky
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| 6:45
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| 123
| Sky Culture
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| 124
| Moon & Tides
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| 2:45
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| 125
| Spectroscopy
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| 126
| Data Collecting Telescopes
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| 127
| History of Astronomy
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| 128
| Radiation & Reflection
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| 2:00
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E-Mail spalen@weber.edu for licensing information.
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Western Immersion
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Cosmic Immersion
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The Immersion Series
While classic planetarium users will recognize that the immersion series is fundamentally a set of slide shows, the full-dome projection capabilities plus the application of 'Ken Burns Effects' and some very simple 3-D modeling make these shows remarkably powerful audio-visual experiences. We use them with our University's Wellness Program. Faculty and staff from all over campus come to be in the calm, quiet, soothing space of the planetarium for half an hour or so. This is especially useful around the end of the semester, when stress levels on campus peak, and everyone is feeling stretched. All are accompanied by beautiful, relaxing music from Magnatune.com.
Because of the very slow pace, these shows are not recommended for children, unless you intend to 'voice-over', and narrate them.
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Western Immersion is full of beautiful mountain and desert imagery of Utah and nearby states, accompanied by beautiful music. 25 min, available now!
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Cosmic Immersion uses imagery from NASA's Great Observatories: Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra, to take you on a tour of the cosmos. Celtic music from Magnatune supplies the audio backdrop for this out-of-this-world experience. 40 min, available now!
E-Mail spalen@weber.edu for licensing information.
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Boy Scouts Astronomy Merit Badge Program
Now your planetarium can host the Astronomy Merit Badge course, complete with topic based animation, an activity guide, and educational materials. Available in Fulldome and DVD.
2.5 hour workshop for Boy Scouts.
E-Mail spalen@weber.edu for licensing information.
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Hubble's 15th Anniversary
For Hubble's birthday, NASA took the highest resolution pictures ever obtained of two of the Universe's most-beautiful objects: the Eagle Nebula and the Whirlpool Galaxy. We've put them on the dome, zoomed in and out and panned across. For sheer oohs and aahs, this is the show!
6 min, All Ages
E-Mail spalen@weber.edu for licensing information.
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Ultra-Short Shorts
Sometimes, we are just playing around, trying to figure out how to do things. This leads to some really fun pieces, that you can get all on one CD. Some planetaria are using these as part of their fund-raising or as part of their negotiations with administrators. We use them just for fun. A sample of what you'll find on the disk includes:
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SAVI-Ott Visualization Demo: The Scientific Analysis and Visualization Initiative at Weber State University focuses on bringing Departments together to figure out how to share and use the resources on campus. Begun as an effort to leverage small numbers of computers for parallel processing, SAVI has grown to be an umbrella for collaborations of all kinds. This very short piece has examples of how we are using the planetarium to visualize content for Microbiology, Geosciences, Physics, Chemistry, and Architecture/Graphic Design Departments on campus.
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High Impact Physics: Admit it, you always wanted to knock all the blocks down as soon as you built a structure. Now you can do it full-dome style, when your structure is 30 feet across! Developed as part of some experimentation with a physics engine plug-in for 3DS Max, this 1 minute show is more fun than, well, than a barrel of blocks.
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Zoom to Ott: Konica-Minolta zooms in from space to K-M tower in Tokyo. We think ours is better, because you wind up here in Ogden, UT. This one makes the little children scream. We like making little children scream.
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Production Trailers: Of course we're going to slap some of these on there -- you are a captive audience!
E-Mail spalen@weber.edu for licensing information.
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