Computer generated video animations which can be used in show production.
The full list of animations is shown below.
The program is available through the Great Lakes Planetarium Association. To order choose from one of the following options:
DVD 1: Earth, Moon and Sun - 14:54
1 - Sun Rotating (nearly full frame) - 2:00
2 - Sun Rotating (smaller) - 2:00
3 - Earth orbiting sun - 1:00 (at 10 seconds zooms in to Earth rotating)
4 - Season demonstration - 1:30 (Earth tilts on axis and orbits sun,
pausing at times)
5 - Day/Night on Earth with moving clouds from side - 1:30
6 - Polaris over pole diagram - 1:40
7 - Earth zooms in and rotates - 0:40
8 - Earth rotates - 0:40
9 - Day/Night on Earth with Observer on Earth from above - 0:30
10 - Moon orbits Earth from above - 0:11
11 - Moon orbits Earth from side - 0:15
12 - Moon orbits Earth from side (larger) - 0:10
13 - Orbiting around moon - 0:15
14 - Phases of the moon - 0:12
15 - Lunar Eclipse - 0:44
16 - Rotating Earth & Rotating Mars, scaled - 0:20
17 - Lunar astronaut mishaps montage - 0:43
18 - Lunar exploration montage - 0:58
19 - Credits 0:20
DVD 2: Planets and Stars - 57:41
1 - Mercury zoom and rotate - 0:50
2 - Mercury rotating - 2:00
3 - Venus zoom and rotate - 0:40
4 - Venus rotating - 2:00
5 - Mars zoom and rotate - 0:40
6 - "Lowell's Mars" in telescope - 6:00
7 - Rotating Mars - 0:50
8 - Reddend rotating Mars - 2:00
9 - Dark rotating Mars - 6:00
10 - Jupiter rotating - 0:40
11 - Jupiter rotating - 2:00
12 - Jupiter and Galilean moons in telescope - 5:00
13 - Jupiter zoom and rotate - 3:53
14 - Saturn zoom and rotate - 0:40
15 - Saturn rotating from north - 0:40
16 - Saturn rotating from south (2007 colors) - 4:00
17 - Saturn rotating from south (Voyager colors) - 6:00
18 - Saturn/Cassini/Huygens/Titan (Cassini/Huygens rotates) - 2:00
19 - Orbiting around Titan - 2:30
20 - Uranus (2008 view) - 0:40
21 - Neptune (modern view, no dark spot) - 0:40
22 - Neptune w/ rings (no dark spot) - 2:00
23 - Betegeuse rotating & fluctuating in size - 5:00
24 - Supernova/nebula formation - 0:30
25 - Credits - 0:20
DVD 3: Additional animations - 8:30
1 - Precession - 1:23
2 - Earth with Polaris/Cynosura as north star - 0:40
3 - Earth with no north star - 0:40
4 - Earth with Kochab as north star - 0:40
5 - Earth with Thuban as north star - 0:40
6 - Inner planet orrery (fly across ecliptic) - 0:30
7 - Inner planet orrery - 0:30
8 - Earth with moving clouds - 0:30
9 - Jupiter zoom and rotate - 1:00
10 - Orbit around Europa - 0:30
11 - Saturn zoom and rotate from north (Voyager colors) - 0:45
12 - Extrasolar planet perturbing primary - 0:30
DVD 4: Prehistoric Earth - 18:33
1 - Present Day Earth (Rotating) - 3:00
2 - Earth during Hadean Eon (4.6 bya) - 3:00
3 - Earth with meteor bombardment - 1:00
4 - Earth during early Archaean Eon (3.8 bya) - 1:00
5 - Rodinia supercontinent/late Proterozoic (1 bya) - 1:00
6 - Recent space shuttle launch (NASA) - 2:26
7 - Small Earth (present day) - 1:00
8 - Earth with axial tilt shifting -- 1:00
9 - Present Earth with meteor bombardment - 1:00
10 - Triassic Earth (Pangaea) (265 mya) - 1:00
11 - Jurassic Earth (Laurasia & Gondwana) (150 mya) - 1:00
12 - Cretaceous Earth (100 mya) - 1:00
13 - Cretaceous-Tertiary meteor impact - 1:07
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Updated September 8, 2009