Chat from 2021-03-26

13:54:31 From Digitalis Kyle to Everyone : Kyle Seattle (Digitalis)

13:54:35 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : Hi all! Karrie Berglund from Digitalis, based in Bremerton, Washington.

13:54:36 From Adam Thanz to Everyone : Adam Thanz - Bays Mountain Planetarium - Kingsport, TN

13:54:36 From Todd Ullery to Everyone : Hello from New Freedom PA

13:54:57 From Guilherme Frederico Marranghello to Everyone : Guilherme - Bagé - Brazil

13:55:18 From ☾ Caity Sullivan ☾ to Everyone : Caity Sullivan - Charles Hayden Planetarium - Boston, MA

13:58:59 From Dário Fonseca to Everyone : Dário Fonseca - Coimbra, Portugal

14:06:41 From Mike Smail to Everyone : Mike Smail, Adler Planetarium, Chicago

14:06:42 From April Whitt to Everyone : April Whitt - Atlanta Georgia USA

14:06:44 From Mike Francis to Everyone : Mike Francis from Massachusetts.

14:06:49 From Justin Stevick to Everyone : Justin Stevick - College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California

14:06:50 From Noreen Grice to Everyone : Noreen Grice - You Can Do Astronomy LLC, New Britain Connecticut

14:06:50 From Amie Gallagher to Everyone : Amie Gallagher, RVCC Planetarium, New Jersey

14:06:57 From Cal Powell to Everyone : Cal Powell, Retired, Alexandria, VA

14:06:58 From Carole Holmberg to Everyone : Carole Holmberg, Museum of York County, Rock Hill, SC

14:06:59 From Vincent Tobin to Everyone : Vince Tobin of Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA

14:06:59 From John Gus Erickson to Everyone : John Erickson, Berkeley, California

14:07:03 From Sarah Abotsi-Masters to Everyone : Sarah, Accra, Ghana

14:07:08 From Patrick (NEST) to Everyone : Patrick Pomerleau - NEST Immersion - Montreal, Canada

14:07:12 From John Barry to Everyone : John Barry __ Bowen Technovation   Indianapolis, IN

14:07:34 From Toshi Komatsu to Everyone : Toshi Komatsu, De Anza Planetarium, Cupertino, CA, USA

14:07:35 From Karl to Everyone : Karl von Ahnen Santa Cruz Mountains, California

14:07:54 From Rachel Williamson to Everyone : Rachel Williamson - Brown Planetarium Muncie, IN

14:07:59 From Dani LeBlanc (she/her) to Everyone : Dani LeBlanc, Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, Boston

14:08:00 From Benjamin to Everyone : Benjamin Mendelsohn, Kvamme Planetarium, West Valley College, Saratoga, CA USA

14:08:04 From Ken Brandt to Everyone : Ken Brandt, Robeson Planetarium, NC

14:09:46 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : vb-audio.com/cable (so we can find it again later).

14:10:14 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to Everyone : Alan Gould, Berkeley California

14:10:20 From Page Else to Everyone : Page Else, Pre-Virus at Imiloa Planetarium, Hilo

14:10:45 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to vicst(Direct Message) : vicst, what is your real name?

14:12:18 From Mike Smail to Everyone : My mother was a saint!

14:12:23 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to Karrie Berglund(Direct Message) : I asked vicst what his or her real name is. no response yet

14:12:40 From Karrie Berglund to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : I'll keep an eye on vic.

14:13:13 From Sarah Abotsi-Masters to Everyone : Love the porcupine!!

14:13:45 From April Whitt to Everyone : Happy Birthday Cooper!

14:14:06 From Rachel Williamson to Everyone : I would love written instructions (rrwilliamson@bsu.edu)

14:14:38 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : obs.ninja (for future reference)

14:14:45 From Digitalis Kyle to Everyone : Does anyone have an alternative to the Virtual cable for OBS on Linux?

14:15:55 From Ken Brandt to Everyone : Karrie the first link you posted about the cable doesn’t work

14:16:14 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : Thanks, Ken--I'll look into that later. Probably fat fingered it.

14:16:24 From Dário Fonseca to Everyone : https://vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm

14:17:05 From vicst to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : Hi Karrie

14:17:23 From vicst to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : Hi Alan

14:17:43 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to vicst(Direct Message) : Who are you?

14:18:36 From vicst to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : VIC …

14:18:53 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to vicst(Direct Message) : Vic Stryker?

14:19:33 From Ken Brandt to Everyone : Thanks, Dario, it works well

14:20:19 From vicst to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : VIC STRYKER yep

14:22:05 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to Karrie Berglund(Direct Message) : He's Vic Stryker...I renamed him

14:22:22 From Karrie Berglund to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : Great--thanks!

14:24:02 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : I had no idea you could draw in Zoom (Even if it never works).

14:24:22 From Sarah Abotsi-Masters to Everyone : Kahoot is fab!!

14:24:50 From April Whitt to Everyone : Students did that during a lesson I did today. The fourth graders know how to make it work.

14:25:09 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : I bet the 4th graders could teach me a lot, April

14:25:29 From April Whitt to Everyone : It’s intuitive to them :)

14:27:09 From Vic Stryker to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : How r u doing ? Im 76 now. Time sure flys…

14:28:13 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to Vic Stryker(Direct Message) : Doing great here. Thanks. Enjoying "retirement" but still working too. I get to choose what I do, to some extent.

14:30:21 From Dani LeBlanc (she/her) to Everyone : haha let us try it now

14:30:34 From Ken Brandt to Everyone : LOL Dani!

14:30:52 From Vic Stryker to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : cool. I do star turs at a resort here in Tucson n volunteer as solar scope opr n docent at Kitt Peak except Kitt will be closed til proly dec.

14:31:31 From Dani LeBlanc (she/her) to Everyone : it's okay!  I'm sure it would not have been pretty :)

14:32:11 From John Gus Erickson to Everyone : I think if someone is screen sharing, anyone can draw using the annotate tools. The default setting is that this feature is enabled.

14:33:17 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to Everyone : If you came in late and have not already signed in to our sign in sheet (chat is our sign in sheet), please sign in with your name and where you are from.

14:33:29 From Mary Holt to Everyone : Mary Holt - Alameda CA!

14:33:51 From Adam Thanz to Everyone : With the nuclear wessels?

14:33:54 From Katie Iadanza to Everyone : Katie Iadanza - Lakewood, WA

14:34:00 From Mary Holt to Everyone : lol, that's correct, Adam

14:34:09 From Adam Thanz to Everyone : : )

14:35:37 From Page Else to Everyone : his sound is worse now, fainter for me

14:35:44 From Ken Brandt to Everyone : …and there went half of the sky! :)

14:36:05 From Mary Holt to Everyone : Same here @Page

14:36:28 From Ken Brandt to Everyone : Lots of feedback

14:36:47 From Page Else to Everyone : yes with an earth head!

14:37:31 From April Whitt to Everyone : Fibber McGee’s closet back there.

14:37:55 From Kris McCall @ Cernan Earth and Space Center to Everyone : Kris McCall at Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College in River Grove, just west of Chicago

14:38:44 From Kris McCall @ Cernan Earth and Space Center to Everyone : green table cloths from party city, inexpensive, large, movable.

14:39:14 From Mary Holt to Everyone : The Sun! ;)

14:39:15 From Kris McCall @ Cernan Earth and Space Center to Everyone : 7th planet

14:39:16 From April Whitt to Everyone : And those can be held up with duct tape.

14:39:21 From Sarah Abotsi-Masters to Everyone : Jupiter!!

14:41:06 From April Whitt to Everyone : There is a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets through.

14:41:17 From Rachel Williamson to Everyone : That last one blew my mind, lol

14:42:03 From Ken Brandt to Everyone : Please show your screen

14:44:31 From Page Else to Everyone : my green screen is a tropical leaf pattern with shades of green and black and it still works (most of the time)

14:46:37 From Dário Fonseca to Everyone : to show your screen through OBS on the fly, you can add screen capture as a new source to the current scene.

14:46:40 From Page Else to Everyone : we had an early Dome Dialogues show on external cameras, etc, Mike McC presented

14:53:27 From Mike Francis to Everyone : https://spout.zeal.co/

14:53:36 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to Patrick (NEST)(Direct Message) : Patrick, what is your last name?

14:54:40 From Patrick (NEST) to Alan Gould PPA Secretary(Direct Message) : Patrick Pomerleau - Patrick.pomerleau@nestimmersion.ca

14:55:49 From Page Else to Everyone : where do you find the annotation tools?

14:56:13 From Mike Francis to Everyone : I think you just have to let everyone share Karrie.

14:56:16 From William Mitchell - Michigan to Everyone : Does anyone remember screen drawing on TV screens in the 1950's using clear plastic and grease pencils?

14:56:38 From April Whitt to Everyone : Wow, William! That was great fun back in the day!

15:01:17 From April Whitt to Everyone : Creating videos for the pre-show audience.

15:02:25 From April Whitt to Everyone : Carter Emmert has a great story about dome-casting.

15:02:30 From Sarah Abotsi-Masters to Everyone : At the Ghana Planetarium we participated in domecasts using Uniview software

15:03:07 From Mike Francis to Everyone : That's a great idea

15:03:41 From Mary Holt to Everyone : CAS is planning to live stream from the dome for our Wednesday shows once the planetarium reopens

15:04:35 From Dani LeBlanc (she/her) to Everyone : that's great @Mary - how will you capture visuals?

15:05:02 From Page Else to Everyone : Do you have a Facebook page Ken, that might build attendance

15:05:03 From Mary Holt to Everyone : I'm not 100% sure, Dan Tell would know, he's setting it all up. I know we're planning to use StreamYard still though for producing at least

15:05:22 From Mary Holt to Everyone : And we're going to be doing a 360 YouTube stream I think

15:05:30 From Mike Smail to Everyone : Sorry, bounced out of the meeting for a bit. We've domecasted for years, streaming from our dome to other domes and YouTube using Uniview (other domes) and OBS (to YouTube). It's hard to do well, but it's generally been a worthwhile experience

15:05:35 From Ken Brandt to Everyone : I post it to Facebook, but that doesn’t seem to help much

15:05:51 From Dani LeBlanc (she/her) to Everyone : that's fantastic to hear! :)  such a great way to extend reach

15:06:17 From Mary Holt to Everyone : Yeah! :) I'm excited to see how it works out. Presenter-side the biggest thing we're wondering is how to engage the folks in the dome as well as online at the same time.

15:07:11 From Mike Smail to Everyone : Our YouTube streams were 360, as well. You need a beefy computer, and a heck of a lot of network bandwidth. We streamed an 8Kx4K equirectangular out

15:07:24 From Dani LeBlanc (she/her) to Everyone : Mary, do you have capacity to have a second person monitoring chat & responding?

15:08:02 From Mary Holt to Everyone : That's the plan, yeah, we try to always have at least 2 people doing a live stream - a presenter and a producer (who would watch chat, respond, change the view on screen if needed)

15:08:33 From Dani LeBlanc (she/her) to Everyone : for what it's worth, our education teams are looking at doing the same out of the Museum's Theater of Electricity and other stages on Fridays and Saturdays

15:08:57 From Mike Smail to Everyone : you absolutely need another person to handle the chat

15:09:26 From Mary Holt to Everyone : Oh cool, @Dani! And yeah, agreed @Mike, it's basically impossible to present and watch the chat at the same time

15:09:35 From Mike Smail to Everyone : 100%

15:10:37 From Mike Smail to Everyone : If any of us actually knew how the YouTube/facebook content algorithms worked, we wouldn't be working in a planetarium!

15:10:49 From April Whitt to Everyone : Amen Mike!

15:11:18 From Mary Holt to Everyone : We also live stream in 360 on Wednesday mornings! :)

15:12:27 From April Whitt to Everyone : Thank you for hosting this!

15:12:32 From Benjamin to Everyone : What was the website Carrie just mentioned?

15:12:44 From Kris McCall @ Cernan Earth and Space Center to Everyone : This was boring. :) no bombing.

15:12:53 From Mary Holt to Everyone : bigastronomy.org

15:12:55 From Kris McCall @ Cernan Earth and Space Center to Everyone : no trouble connecting

15:12:57 From Benjamin to Everyone : tnx

15:13:07 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : Big Astronomy, https://www.bigastronomy.org/fulldomeshow/

15:13:21 From Adam Thanz to Everyone : Bays Mountain Productions - http://www.baysmountain.com/planetarium-productions/

15:14:06 From Kris McCall @ Cernan Earth and Space Center to Everyone : yes, 2 days before.

15:14:25 From Patrick Pomerleau (NEST) to Everyone : Patrick Pomerleau - http://nestimmersion.ca/

15:14:35 From Rachel Williamson to Everyone : yes, please add me to the PPA email list (rrwilliamson@bsu.edu)

15:14:51 From Alan Gould PPA Secretary to Everyone : adgould@comcast.net

15:15:41 From Dani LeBlanc (she/her) to Everyone : thank you everyone!!

15:15:48 From John Barry to Everyone : Thank you Everyone !!

15:15:58 From Digitalis Kyle to Everyone : Hope to see you all in person soon!  Need some travelling

15:15:59 From Amie Gallagher to Everyone : Thank you!

15:16:05 From Benjamin to Everyone : Thanks to all the presenters & hosts

15:16:34 From Guilherme Frederico Marranghello to Everyone : thank you all... time for the kids now!!!

15:16:38 From Mike Smail to Everyone : GLPA will be happening in-person in November, Kalamazoo, MI. Everybody's welcome!

15:16:52 From Guilherme Frederico Marranghello to Everyone : bye

15:16:59 From April Whitt to Everyone : Thank you all!

15:17:13 From ☾ Caity Sullivan ☾ to Everyone : Thanks everyone!!

15:20:18 From Toshi Komatsu to Everyone : Gotta run, but good to see everyone. Have a good weekend!

15:20:40 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : Bye, Toshi!

15:27:44 From Mary Holt to Everyone : Gotta take off. Good to see you all!

15:27:51 From Karrie Berglund to Everyone : Bye, Mary!

15:31:10 From Vincent Tobin to Everyone : Good to see everyone!