News from PPA Members (and others)


Holt Planetarium
Lawrence Hall of Science

(University of California, Berkeley)

From: Alan Gould <agould@uclink4.berkeley.edu>

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:19:42 -0800

The Holt Planetarium at Lawrence Hall of Science is part of the University of California, Berkeley (http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu). It has become educational center for the Hands-On Universe (HOU) project. HOU just received a $2.5 million NSF grant to conduct Teacher Enhancement for its high school curriculum that enables students request observations from an automated 30" telescope through the Internet, download images from a large image archive, and analyze them with the aid of user-friendly image processing software. We are also planning to field test "Northern Lights," a new audience participation planetarium show that will become a new volume in the Planetarium Activities for Student Success series (see http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/AST300.html for info on, and how to order existing volumes).