THE SCORPIO - SAGITTARIUS CONNECTION
SYNOPSIS: 110 Slides
Show Time: 46.5 Minutes
Sound Track available on CD, other formats by request.
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This production begins with the sky set for the spring of 6,000 B. C. The constellations and mythology of that skewed sky surrounding Scorpius, Sagittarius, the Milky Way, and Phaethon's fateful attempt to drive Helios's sun chariot, is dramatized and interpreted.
We then follow precession to the present, and examine the region of Scorpius and Sagittarius as seen with binoculars and telescopes by both amateur and professional astronomers. Deep space objects investigated are M - 8, M - 20, Antares, M - 4, M - 22 and more.
In the finale, the audience is taken beyond the star clouds of
Sagittarius, spiral arm, by spiral arm, layer by layer, deep into the
centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. Upon arriving at the central region of
the Milky Way Astronomers present evidence for the existance of the
most bizarre of all Astronomical objects, a black hole.
Special Effects Needed
A Planetarium projector capable of showing Precession of the Equinoxes
(though I have been told it is possible to demonstrate without
precession built into the projector). Two slide projectors.
Suggested Special Effects
A boloid or meteor projector. A slewing mirror projector for Phaethon's
ride through the Milky Way, the IRA Satellite, and the Shuttle.
Constellation projectors for at least Scorpius and Sagittarius (before
and after precession), projectors for Hercules and Draco would be a
nice touch. Four projectors for a vertical or horizontal panorama of
the Milky Way. A rotating gate projector for the Milky Way Galaxy (add
an animorphic lense for a tilted view of the universe). A cepheid
variable (point source). A "swirling blurbie" and "black hole"
projector. A two projector "dissolve."
Hints and directions for building special effects are provided with the annotated script. An additional dissolve unit, with wide-angle lenses of less than 2" focal length, would make this production look real sharp!
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Last changed 08 March 2001 by Garry T. Stasiuk.
garrystasiuk@comcast.net
