Loch Ness Productions

12/04/2025

Yay 2025!

06/03/2025

The "R" word -- Big News from Loch Ness Productions

"All things must pass." -- George Harrison

****** THE BIG NEWS:

Effective 30 June 2025, we're closing down the customer-facing side of Loch Ness Productions. After 48 years in the dome trade, Mark and Carolyn Collins Petersen have decided it's time to retire. We're both in our 70s now, and looking forward to some relaxation in the remaining years we have ahead of us.

****** SO HOW DOES THIS AFFECT YOU?

Until 30 June, we will continue with business as usual. The clock is ticking, however, so send those purchase orders soon!

After that, LNP shows will continue to be available from the reseller partners listed on our website. We just won't be handling those orders ourselves any more.

Licenses will remain valid for LNP shows that you may have.

We thank you for helping share our explorations of the universe with your audiences. Our shows have played in hundreds of domes worldwide, and reached millions of people. And from our part of the show distribution business, we've provided our producer partners more than a million dollars in show license sales income. Yay!

****** WHAT ABOUT FULLDOME OnDemand?

We will be turning over the operation of FULLDOME OnDemand to the good folks at ePlanetarium. They have been with us since nearly the beginning, and already have the second-largest number of shows on our streaming service (from the Houston Museum of Natural Science). They regularly recommend FULLDOME OnDemand to their Discovery Dome customers, for both the fisheye and spherical mirror systems they sell. With Web programmers and office staff on hand, they are the natural choice for keeping FULLDOME OnDemand running.

Since we began FULLDOME OnDemand in 2015, we have streamed thousands of shows to hundreds of domes around the world. And we've provided our producer partners more than $120,000 (and counting) from show rental fees, creating a new income stream that didn't exist before we started it. More Yay!

****** BACK TO THE FUTURE:

After 1 July, Loch Ness Productions will transition to become a holding company for receiving the income and royalties from our intellectual properties -- our planetarium shows, Mark's music, and Carolyn's writing. While our copyrights won't expire until 70 years after we do, in this digital age, our works may live on practically "forever".

In essence, we're returning to our roots -- music for Mark and writing for Carolyn.

We thank you for your years of supporting our endeavors, and wish you prosperity for the future. We hope you'll do the same for us!

The Nessies -- Mark and Carolyn Collins Petersen

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12/06/2024

Thanks, all!

Pretty amazing -- the number of Geodesium streams over the last year nearly doubled, and listeners more than tripled! Thank you all!

12/06/2024

Pretty amazing -- the number of Geodesium streams over the last year nearly doubled, and listeners more than tripled! Thank you all!

09/20/2024

We've added some fine kids' shows from Melbourne Planetarium. License them today!

"Tilt"
https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/mel/tlt.html

"Tycho Goes To Mars"
https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/mel/tgm.html

"Tycho to the Moon"
https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/mel/ttm.html

09/20/2024

We've added some fine shows from Melbourne Planetarium. License them today!

"Our Living Climate"
https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/mel/olc.html

"Moonbase ONE"
https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/mel/mb1.html

"Capturing the Cosmos"
https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/mel/ctc.html

"Black Holes"
https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/mel/blh.html

07/06/2024

Here's something you don't get to see everyday in fulldome...

05/28/2024

The latest from the California Academy of Sciences...
Spark: The Universe in Us
Where did the building blocks of life come from?

Travel inside a giant star nearing the end of its life, witness stellar corpses colliding, and experience the quiet demise of a Sun-like star.

With English narration by Diego Luna, the California Academy of Sciences’ 2023 original planetarium film "Spark: The Universe in Us" explores how hundreds of millions of celestial events have forged the elements that make up the Solar System, Earth, and us.

From the oxygen we breathe to the iron in our blood, the silicon in Earth’s mantle to the uranium that warms our planet’s core and helps give our planet its protective magnetic field, we owe it all to the stars!

Begin your journey across space and time here: https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/cas/suu.html

You can also rent/stream the show from FULLDOME OnDemand:

https://www.fulldomeondemand.com/shows_cas.html

05/23/2024

Celebrate the 100th Anniversary!

"The Universe in a Room: The Story of the Planetarium"

https://www.fulldomeondemand.com/shows_more.html

05/21/2023

New Distribution Showreel Posted

Sample the latest additions to our catalog in a quick 7-minute clip fest!

https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/blasts/LNP_2023_distribution_showreel.html

04/05/2023

The latest from the California Academy of Sciences is now available to license!

Living Worlds takes you on an exploration of the co-evolution of life and our planet, revealing the ways in which life has transformed Earth’s surface and atmosphere over billions of years. Along the way, you’ll see how light and color can help us spot a living world, even from great distances.

Begin your search for Living Worlds here:

https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/cas/lws.html

03/19/2023

Looking for The Dark Side Of The Moon 50th Anniversary Planetarium Show? We've got it! Come to Loch Ness Productions for info, a full-length preview, and license pricing:

https://www.lochnessproductions.com/shows/ips/tds.html