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The STARLAB Newsletter

The STARLAB News is a free, 12 to 16 page newsletter created to support the exchange of ideas and materials. Mailed two times per year, the STARLAB News keeps users up to date with articles about changes to the planetarium system, new products, activities, grantwriting tips, suggestions from other STARLAB users around the world, an event calendar and much more.

And: STARLAB Goes Digital: Announcing Digital STARLAB, an all-in-one digital planetarium projection system.

Plus:

• STARLAB Around the Globe: STARLAB Going Strong in India
• Activity: Where in the World??? A Model Lesson for STARLAB
• Tools to Help Meet the National Standards: Project STAR Spectrometer
• New Ideas Under the Dome: See the Light!, STARLAB and the Ancient Mariners, Emergency Light, A Helpful Hand for STARLAB
• Bulletin Board: SkyTellers — The Myths, the Magic, and the Mysteries of the Universe; Project STAR Starfinders — A Useful STARLAB Tool; Crowds Cheer a Rare Annular Eclipse and the Sunspotter
• STARLAB User News & Contributions: STARLAB Down Under: The Cosmic Couple; 2005 Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award Recipient; Still Going After All These Years
• Ask the Editor: What is the correct speed to operate the STARLAB inflation fan?
• Convention & Workshop Calendar
• LTI News: LTI now offers award-winning Starry Night™ software and DVDs!
• Astro Adventures: The Sky is Falling
• Funding Finder: Two federal grant possibilities for STARLAB

Plus:

• STARLAB Around the Globe: STARLAB in Central America
• Activity: Guided by the North Star — A Model Lesson for STARLAB
• Ask the Editor: Many of the planetarium activities for student success (PASS) volumes have slide sets that supplement the activities. Can a slide projector be used in STARLAB?
• Project STAR: Solar System Scale Model Kit
• New Ideas Under the Dome: Feeling a Little Dizzy?, Comfortable Seating in STARLAB, Free Monthly Sky Maps, Ecliptic Slide Projector Mount (click to download assembly instructions)
• STARLAB User News & Contributions: Spend a Week in Northern Italy in Fall 2005, STARLAB FiberArc Projector Gets High Marks on DOME-L, Fiske Planetarium Brings New Portable Planetarium to Local K-12 Schools, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Funds STARLAB Programs, Louisiana STARLAB Educators Organize
• STARLAB Spotlight: Kent Place School Wins National Award for STARLAB Use
• Convention and Workshop Calendar: Astronomy form a Portable Planetarium, STARLAB Workshops at NSTA, STARLAB Honorarium Program
• The Inside Scoop, News from LTI: Three from Steve Tomecek
• Astro Adventures
• Funding Finder

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• STARLAB User News & Contributions: Kiwi Connections; John Land, STARLAB Educator, Earns National Award; STARLAB in Oklahoma's Broken Arrow School System
• New Ideas Under the Dome: Photographing Constellations in STARLAB; Photographing Star Trails in STARLAB; Lighten Up!; Scale for Measuring in STARLAB, Swivel Seat for STARLAB
• Bulletin Board: Available Funding through the IDEAS Grant Program; Nessie Sightings on the Rise
• Ask the Editor: How do I set the STARLAB projector for a particular night sky and compensate for Daylight Savings Time?
• Project STAR: Holographic Diffraction Grating
• The Inside Scoop, News from LTI: STARLAB Goes to Spain!, New Astronomy Education Products Available from LTI (from Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
• Astro Adventures: Follow the Sun
• Funding Finder: More Exciting Fundraising Ideas

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• STARLAB User News & Contributions: School District's Science Center Uses STARLAB as a Fixed Planetarium; Science in Africa/The Adventures of Science Granny; Reaching for the Stars/Sci-Port Discovery Center Outreach; Louisiana STARLAB Users Organize; Parent Teacher Association Gets Involved with STARLAB
• New Ideas Under the Dome: A Durable Rolling Cart; Keeping Fingerprints Off of the Projection Cylnders; Cover Those Wires
• Bulletin Board: Check Out the NASA Resources Available for the Transit of Venus; Four-in-One Astronomy Card Game from the Family Astronomy Project
• Ask the Editor: How Much Time Should I Budget For My Lessons in STARLAB
• Project STAR: The 3-D Constellation Kit Provides a Dimensional View of Star Patterns
• The Inside Scoop, News from LTI: New Products—Maya Skies Cylinder, Bird Migration Cylinder, Navajo Skies Cylinder, STARLAB FiberArc Projector; LTI Supports STARLAB Presenters at Conventions
• Funding Finder: Innovative STARLAB Fundraising Ideas

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Astro Adventures

Plus:

• STARLAB User News & Contributions: The Jefferson Parish School System; Houston, STARLAB Has Landed; STARLAB and the Louisiana Purchase
• New Ideas Under the Dome: Cleaning the Dome; Adjusting for Daylight Savings Time; Great Ideas for the Transparent Cylinder; Extending the Life Expectancy of STARLAB
• Bulletin Board: Fame and Fortune Could be Yours!; Resources for Viewing the Sun; Free Northern Lights Kits; A New Edition of Astronomy Education Review; Active Galaxies—Educator Guide with Activities
• Ask the Editor: STARLAB Daily Motion
• Project STAR: Where We are in Space and Time Activity Book
• The Inside Scoop, News from LTI: Exciting New Cylinders: Maya Skies, Bird Migration; Navajo Sky; New Books: Living with a STAR (GEMS); Sun; Stars (both by Steve Tomecek); Great Ideas for Teaching Astronomy by Stephen Pompea
• Astro Adventures: They Call Me the Wanderer
• Funding Finder: Fund-Raising Resources

Astro Adventures

Plus:

• STARLAB User News & Contributions: Big Observatory Outreach Programs are a Huge Success
• New Ideas Under the Dome: Twilight Sky Simulator; Sun Simulator; Duct Tape, Duct Tape, Duct Tape; Using Carpet for Seating in STARLAB; More on Carpet Use; Performance Contracts for Students
• Bulletin Board: Fame and Fortune Could be Yours!; A Free Online Astronomy Newsletter for Educators; Raritan Valley Community College in North Branch NJ Offers Summer Astronomy Workshops and STARLAB Training
• Ask the Editor: Fan Shut Off
• Project STAR Refracting Telescopes Help Meet the National Standards
• The Inside Scoop, News from LTI: LTI Announces the STARLAB FiberArc Projector and MultiLens Starfield Cylinder; A New Volume in the PASS Series — Northern Lights
• Astro Adventures: A Sign of the Times
• Funding Finder: No Child Left Behind — How to Access the New Funding Opportunities

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• LTI Announces the STARLAB FiberArc Projector & MultiLens Starfield Cylinder
• STARLAB Production Timeline
• Phil Sadler, STARLAB Inventor Wins Thomas J. Brennan Award
• New Ideas Under the Dome: Cleaning the Dome, Cleaning Your Fan Motor, Glow-in-the-Dark Horizons and Direction Markers, Patching the Dome, Writing in STARLAB
• Ask the Editor: Projecting Planets in STARLAB
• Project STAR Helps Meet the National Science Education Standards
• Spend a Week in Northern Italy in Fall 2003
• STARLAB User News & Contributions: PIPS Meeting Round-up, New STARLAB Chat Group, CD-ROM for STARLAB Users, Sue Reynolds Button Awarded International Planetarium Society's Service Award, Surfing the Solar System Web Game, Prepare for Lift Off--Holton High students help preschoolers in STARLAB
• STARLAB News Celebrates its 10th Year!
• Astro Adventures: Smiling Phases
• Funding Finder: Writing an Effective Statement of Need

Astro Adventures

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• POPS Solutions Update
• Bulletin Board: SOFIA Education and Public Outreach, Project STAR Sun Tracking Hemispheres Complement STARLAB Lessons, PIPS Meeting Round-up, New On the Web: Enhanced Space Science Access for Museums and Planetariums, Other Planets, Other Moons Lesson Plans
• STARLAB User News & Contributions: Quick Assets: Fundraising for STARLAB, Congratulations to the Louisiana Children's Museum, Wall to Wall STARLABs!, STARLAB Comes to the Kidzeum, Sustained Teacher Support, Spend a Week in Northern Italy
• STARLAB Spotlight: Cosmic Cultures
• Ask the Editor: Patching Pinholes at the Top of the Dome
• New Ideas Under the Dome: GLPA/SEPA Portable Planetarium Workshop 2001 Ideas
• The Inside Scoop from LTI: New Title in GEMS now Available--Real Reasons for the Seasons, New PASS Volume--Northern Lights
• Astro Adventures: Star Light, Star Bright
• Funding Finder: Grant Proposals 101

Astro Adventures

Plus:

• NASA's Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program
• Spend a Week in Northern Italy in Fall 2002
• STARLAB User News & Contributions: Preservice Teachers Experience STARLAB, STARLAB Dude, South African STARLAB, Project ASTRO Makes a New Home at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
• STARLAB Spotlight: Kiwi Adventures
• Hubble Book Helps Visually Impaired Students Touch the Stars
• Ask the Editor: Writing in STARLAB
• New Ideas Under the Dome: Please Take a Seat, Keeping Track of Your Flashlight or Pointer in the Dome, Using the Project STAR Star Finder Kit in STARLAB, Leaving the Dome Set Up Overnight, Removing Shoes before Entering STARLAB
• The Inside Scoop from LTI: Astronomy and More is now Available at Quantity Discounts, The Stars Shine on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Come to Our Free Teacher Workshops at NSTA, Lewis & Clark Celestial Navigation Cylinder and Curriculum
• Astro Adventures: Science Try-It
• Funding Finder: Common Funding Questions, Funding Tips

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• Incorporating the Project STAR Spectrometer with STARLAB
• STARLAB Hall of Fame, thanks to STARLAB workshop presenters
• Win a Week in Northern Italy This Fall
• STARLAB User News & Contributions: Title II Money Funds STARLAB in Rural Louisiana Parish, Books and Much, Much More, Reading Under the Stars
• STARLAB Spotlight: Senior STARLAB--It's Still Going After 23 Years of Use!
• POPS Solutions Update
• Ask the Editor: Finding the Waning Crescent Moon . . .
• New Ideas Under the Dome: Free Monthly Sky Maps, Big Bang Simulation, Cleaning the Dome, Moon Mania, Uncle Al's Star Wheel
• The Inside Scoop from LTI: Two New Curriculum Titles--More Universe at Your Fingertips, A Walk Through the Southern Sky, Announcing Lewis & Clark Cylinder & Curriculum
• Funding Finder: Using a common grant proposal, government grants, funding sources

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• STARLAB Spotlight: Exemplary STARLAB Programs
• Project STAR Helps Meet National Science Education Standards
• Don't Miss Some Upcoming Fall STARLAB Workshops
• New Ideas Under the Dome: Soothing Sounds for STARLAB, Providing Red Light in STARLAB, Simulated Campfire for STARLAB, Admusting for Daylight Savings Time, Seating Students in the Dome, Preparing a Floor's Surface for STARLAB, Classroom Management Tips for the STARLAB
• Announcing the Sunspotter, the Safer Solar Telescope
• STARLAB User News & Contributions: Raymond Shubinsky is the Winner of the 2000 Week in Northern Italy Trip, How You Can Apply, STARLAB Theme for Science Fair
• Ask the Editor: Handling and Storing Projection Cylinders
• The Inside Scoop from LTI: More Activities in the New Edition of Astronomy & More, Congratulations to These Outstanding Members of the LTI Sales Team
• STARLAB Hall of Fame, thanks to the workshop presenters
• Funding Finder: Finding additional STARLAB money, Recent Funding Successes, Two Great Funding Internet Resources, Current Sources of Funding

Plus:

• POPS Solutions Update
• STARLAB in Costa Rica!
• Ask the Editor: Increasing the Life of a Projection Lamp
• STARLAB User News & Contributions: Portable Planetarium Information Needed, A Week in Northern Italy, Thanks to Several Innovative STARLAB Users, a Transparent Cylinder Curriculum Guide is Born!
• STARLAB Spotlight: Discover Channel Camp at Atlantis!
• Precession of the Equinoxes Historical Planisphere, now available for the Southern Hemisphere
• New Ideas Under the Dome: How to Make Red-Covered Flashlights for Use in STARLAB, Visit These Great Websites for Astronomy and Lots More!
• The Inside Scoop from LTI: The Project STAR Diffraction Grating Gains Attention!, New Curriculum Guides are Now Available
• STARLAB Hall of Fame: thanks to workshop presenters
• Funding Finder: Congratulations to a Recent Funding Success, Common Question, Funding Sources

We have pdf versions of STARLAB News back issues from Winter 1995 to Fall 1999. Issues prior to XII, Winter 1995 are not available as a pdf. Please contact LTI directly for availability.