Season 1-02 - Silhouettes

Hello, this is Gary Likert. Today we're gonna talk about silhouettes. Now silhouettes originated with Etn silhouette, a French politician in the 1700s, who got a reputation for being extremely cheap, clamped down on his people with all these cost saving measures. And so the silhouette was born simply a black profile. And that's basically what we're talking about doing here with the planetarium in your own back yard. Recently, my son said, Dad, I loved your planetarium back when I was a kid in the 90s were the little buildings you had. He didn't remember the stars. He remembered the little houses and buildings around the edges of the horizon. The silhouette around your horizon and your planetarium gives perspective. It gives a feeling of size like a giant stalking across the heavens. Without the silhouette. You don't have anything to compare the star patterns with. There's no cut offs. There's no nothing in the twilight that slowly fades. No little lights that might come on out of planetariums have this problem right up to the Adler the famous Adler back in the 60s. I remember stars on my chest, they didn't even have a cut off mechanism that was in an operation at that time, even though they did have the beautiful Chicago skyline. So really, a silhouette gives an impression gives a perspective, you can have the ocean, you can have cliffs coming down to the ocean doesn't take much back I like to combine those two items gives you a partial glimpse of something more that suggested partial constellations are dramatic. You can guess what they are. You can see just some of them. You can have flat versus three dimensional dark versus vided urban versus rural scenes. I would not recommend projecting horizon because it's just too modern. So that's my subject for today silhouettes thank you