Roving Mars (Imax) in the UK, Finally..it has happened |
Roving Mars (Imax) in the UK, Finally..it has happened |
Mar 24 2007, 08:29 AM
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Right, British UMSFers..
Roving Mars starts at the Birmingham Think Tank Imax theatre next weekend...but hold your horses http://www.imax.ac/schedule.htm 1200, 1515 and 1830 are the showings. Anyone fancy a get-together on April 21st? I can't make any promises, but it should be more than your usual showing - and it's on 3 times in the one day. Think Tank is about 3/4 mile from Birmingham New Street (I will travel by train from Leicester and I would aim to get there before the first of the three showings on the day - about 11ish Once I know more details, I'll let you know Doug |
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Apr 21 2007, 07:06 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
What a great day.... met Helvick on the way in, saw a nice Planetarium presentation ( with the infamous APOD / Aviation Week colourised Navcam mosaic in the middle of it! ), a quick swish around the museum bit, then in for the first Imax showing.
It was exactly what I was hoping it would be - lots of stunning shots of building them at KSC and JPL. The launch sequence was very good indeed - as well as two fantastic EDL sequences which I believe used the actual data to reconstruct the bounces. Not enough surface imagery - but then, not enough movie...twice as long would have been 100 times too short really This was followed by a short update lecture by Jim - bringing us right up to date including his current take on the dark streaks ( dust being cleared away and polishing the berries as it goes ) Then met up with the others for the second time around. The second Imax showing was almost ruined by the sound running about 1.5s ahead of the video - I felt really sorry for those that hadn't seen it in the morning - the bouncing sequences were just a little bit comical with the bounce noise happening almost a full bounce before the bounce on screen. Same again with an update by Jim afterwards - then retired to the back of the Imax theatre for a casual Q'n'A before retiring to a bar downstairs to put the world of space science to rights for an hour Fantastic day all round - glad for those that could make it - so sorry for those that couldn't - hopefully we'll be able to do it again at some point (maybe tie in a group visit to the Science Museum's new space wing with a trip to the Imax at Waterloo). Attached - a few pics of Jim and us lot having a chat after the second showing (me=behind camera lens ) Doug |
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