GLPA Newsletter
Volume 55, Number 2
Summer Solstice, 2020
Bart Benjamin, Editor
Emily Hromi, Cover
Articles
President’s Message
– Waylena McCully
Editor’s Message
– Bart Benjamin
Serving Audiences Without a Dome
– Michael McConville
Book Review: Star Theatre: The Story of the Planetarium
– Francine Jackson
Minutes from the Spring 2020 GLPA Executive Committee Meeting
– prepared by Tiffany Stone Wolbrecht
Minutes from the Spring 2020 GLPA Executive Committee Special Meeting
– prepared by Tiffany Stone Wolbrecht
Columns
State News
– Illinois (Tom Willmitch)
– Indiana (Melinda O’Malley)
– Michigan (Paulette Epstein)
– Ohio (Dale Smith)
– Wisconsin/Minnesota (Jean Creighton)
– Beyond the Lakes (Mary Holt)
Bulletin Board
Kalamazoo Conference Postponed Until 2021
IPS Launches “The Planetarian Network”
GLPA Obituaries Project
Gary Tomlinson Earns Award
IPS Update
– Mike Smail
40 Years & 20 Years Ago
Image Credits
Cover credits: The SARS-CoV-2 cover illustration, titled Coloring Coronavirus, was created by Emily Hromi, based on a painting by David S. Goodsell. The background image is a British Library digitized image from page 52 of L’Espace céleste et la nature tropicale, description physique de l’univers … préface de M. Babinet, dessins de Yan’ Dargent. 1866.
NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
M96: A Galactic Maelstrom
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and LEGUS Team
Young stars in the “wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC and University of Potsdam, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
M13: A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Newborn stars within the Prawn Nebula
Credit: European Southern Observatory
Big Blue Marble Earth
Credit: R. Stockli, A. Nelson, F. Hasler, NASA/ GSFC/ NOAA/ USGS
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