"Ladies and gentlemen, we're floating in space"
The planetarium's the place to hang out, man. I went with my friends as a sorta birthday thing. It was always the best field trip in elementary school, anyways. Because I miss field trips and because of my intense love of stargazing, I picked it over planning some lame party. We were like little kids, reading all the signs, messing with all the exhibits and taking silly pictures.
Floating in space!!
Giving high fives is still amazing in space.
You had to jump when the light flashed green, then you could look at em and choose to have it email you the picture. :P Note the amazing air band at work in the last one. Sadly, we couldn't fit in more friends to the picture.
Afterwards at the planetarium, they have a show in the planetarium room...you know, with the big screen that goes all around? They weren't showing the "In the Sky Tonight" show and I was miffed about that, but what they were showing was something called "Sonic Vision". Reading the description, it sounded like music set to an iTunes visualization algorithm. We walked in and you could smell the faint traces of weed. Somebody had come prepared. The show started and we were in a space ship. We rose out of the docking station and there was the clear, entire night sky above us. We flew along and dove into the atmosphere of a planet, zooming along mysterious, pulsating blobs. It just got trippier from there, too. From a million eyes opening, swirling smoke, a morroccan temple, to intertwining lines, it was a total trip and a half. I enjoyed it, anyways. We all agreed it would've been better on something. :P
After that show, we went to the observatory and saw Jupiter, Saturn, and a star cluster through high powered telescopes. You could even see Jupiter's moons next to it! And of course the view from that hill the observatory's perched on is astounding. The city lights were beautiful from there.
I certainly had fun today. :) Gotta love the stars.
Katrina
Ps- I still can't believe they didn't play any Pink Floyd in the trippy visualization thing.
Floating in space!!
Giving high fives is still amazing in space.
You had to jump when the light flashed green, then you could look at em and choose to have it email you the picture. :P Note the amazing air band at work in the last one. Sadly, we couldn't fit in more friends to the picture.
Afterwards at the planetarium, they have a show in the planetarium room...you know, with the big screen that goes all around? They weren't showing the "In the Sky Tonight" show and I was miffed about that, but what they were showing was something called "Sonic Vision". Reading the description, it sounded like music set to an iTunes visualization algorithm. We walked in and you could smell the faint traces of weed. Somebody had come prepared. The show started and we were in a space ship. We rose out of the docking station and there was the clear, entire night sky above us. We flew along and dove into the atmosphere of a planet, zooming along mysterious, pulsating blobs. It just got trippier from there, too. From a million eyes opening, swirling smoke, a morroccan temple, to intertwining lines, it was a total trip and a half. I enjoyed it, anyways. We all agreed it would've been better on something. :P
After that show, we went to the observatory and saw Jupiter, Saturn, and a star cluster through high powered telescopes. You could even see Jupiter's moons next to it! And of course the view from that hill the observatory's perched on is astounding. The city lights were beautiful from there.
I certainly had fun today. :) Gotta love the stars.
Katrina
Ps- I still can't believe they didn't play any Pink Floyd in the trippy visualization thing.