SPECIAL EFFECTS VIDEO DISC #2

This disc takes visual effects forward by a quantum leap, featuring 3D stellar models and a beautiful Hubble Space Telescope which zooms and turns to scan objects in space. Supernova 1987A is featured, a brilliant blue rotating sphere which then explodes and forms an expanding debris shell. Inside, a pulsar spins rapidly, showing twin radiation beams. A close-up rotating neutron star is provided, and stars such as Betelgeuse, Rigel, Antares, and Altair are solid modeled with rotation and surface details. Two beautiful rotating accretion discs can be used to show stars such as Vega surrounded by debris. Also included: a magnificent scintillating globular cluster, two views of Beta Lyra (distant view with spiral gas plumes and close-up showing the egg-shaped stars rotating and exchanging streams of gas), a Big Bang Sequence with galaxy formation, a zooming, differentially-rotating Milky Way Galaxy, a black hole binary system, the famous JPL martian surface flyover sequence, and more. The disc contains 30 minutes of video (plus music); only a few sample frames are shown here.

1 NTSC LaserDisc or DVD w/production notes. Licensed for in-house planetarium performances only.

SS 701
SS 701T - tape copy in any format (requires purchase of disc).

Table of Contents without images, but with each sequence's category; subject; starting and ending frame numbers; total number of frames; and duration in seconds.