Pacific Planetarium Association

The current Membership List (25 K) is available on line and is updated regularly.

The current PPA newsletter/journal is called the Great Western Observer (GWO) and is a combined effort of four organizations: PPA, RMPA, GLPA and SWAP (Links below). See all past and current issues of GWO at the Great Western Observer website or at the SWAP Resource Page.

Before 2002, the PPA journal/newsletter was called Panorama and links to past issues as well as selected PPA Conference Proceedings are below.
Read the Summer '99 Edition of Panorama.
Read the Proceedings of the Desert Skies Conference.
Read the Summer '00 Edition of Panorama.
Read the Fall '00 Meeting Minutes at Texas 2000.
Read the Texas 2000 Proceedings (pdf file - 1.9 MB).
Read the Summer '01 Edition of Panorama (pdf file - 688 KB).
Read the Fall 2001 Proceedings.
Read the Fall 2001 PPA Regional Meeting Minutes.

There is also a PPA electronic mailing list moderated through Karl von Ahnen <kfv3645@tiptoe.fhda.edu>.

To Join PPA or Renew Membership

To become a PPA member and take part in the benefits of our professional planetarium organization, pay the annual membership dues ($15) either by PayPal or write a check for $15, made out to Pacific Planetarium Association, and send it to Robert Pippin, PPA Treasurer, [address below]. Send e-mail to Bob Pippin <robert.pippin@csn.edu>, or a cover note with your check, stating your name, address, telephone, and email address. You can use our convenient self-mailer. Click on the link at right to use Paypal. Check the Membership List above to confirm your membership status (see last line of your entry for the current "paid-through" date). If your membership has lapsed, send dues to Bob Pippin by check as described above.

The Western Alliance of Planetariums held its most recent meeting July26-30, 2011 at the Mayborn Planetarium & Space Theater at Central Texas College in Killeen, Texas. For details, please visit the conference web site at http://www.wacdomes.org/. Minutes of the 2011 PPA business meeting are available here (PDF - 51 KB). The next WAC meeting will be in conjunction with IPS in Baton Rouge, LA, USA, July 22 - 26, 2012.

You can find the web sites of other planetarium regionals at:

• GLPA (Great Lakes Planetarium Assoc.): http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/GLPA/Index.html
• GPPA (Great Plains Planetarium Assoc.): http://www.spacelaser.com/gppa
• MAPS (Middle Atlantic Planetarium Soc.): http://www.centennialsd.org/SchoolPages/SER/MAPS.html
• SEPA (South-Eastern Planetarium Assoc.): http://www.sepadomes.org/
• SWAP (South-West Assoc. of Planetariums): http://www.swapsky.org/
• RMPA (Rocky Mountain Planetarium Assoc.): http://www.rmpadomes.org/
  
• IPS (International Planetarium Society): http://www.ips-planetarium.org/

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