On Thrusday evening, almost 20 club members went to the IMAX theater at the Marble's Kid Museum for a special event which featured food, beverages, and two IMAX shows.  The first was preview of the independent non-profit film called Outside-in and the second was the main IMAX feature called Hubble 3D.

This was a monthly event called Martini's to the Max that the museum offers to the public.

This month, because of the astronomy related theme, the club was offered a group discount.  Due to the nature of the event it was restricted to adults.

The first feature was an extended preview of the film Outside-In.  This is an ambitious independent film project being done by Stephen VanVuuren in Greensboro.  It uses many millions of images taken by NASA spacecraft to create the flythrough views of the cosmos, focusing on Saturn.  It's visually stunning to see it in true IMAX format.

The second feature was Hubble 3D.  This is an excellent film produced in conjunciton by Hollywood and NASA.  For anyone that has been in the club a few years, you may remember Frank Summers from NASA presenting to the group and discussing the challenges of putting this film together.  This is the first time I was able to see it and the 3D flythrough scenes for the Orion Nebula and Hubble Ultra Deep Field were terrific.