Univ Hawaii Astronomy Presents: "What Makes the Sun Shine"

"The Sun is the dominant driver of Earth's climate.  Almost all the energy we use here on Earth comes from the Sun. We will follow the travels of a photon from where it is generated in the core of the Sun until it reaches Earth.  Along the way we will visit many of the interesting tourist attractions."

By Dr. JD Armstrong

Friday, Nov 22, 8:30 PM 

Astronomy Amphitheater:  UH Aquaculture Program (45/83/27)

Press Release: Univ Hawaii Astronomy Presents "A Thousand Worlds"

Dr. Marcelo Emilio, Astronomy Amphitheater:

There is now what scientists are calling a zoo of planets. Some planets are so different from our own that they resemble the fictional planet Star Wars Tatooine, which had two suns. In this talk Dr. Marcelo Emilio will explain the main detection methods used to find exoplanets and describe some characteristics of the almost thousand worlds discovered.

Friday, Oct 25th at 9:30 pm PDT

http://slurl.com/secondlife/UH%20Aquaculture%20Program/45/83/27

Astronaut Ron Garan: "The Orbital Perspective"

Astronaut Ron Garan will present a talk about life in space and the perspective of our planet from orbit, including a question and answer session.

Ron is an astronaut, a highly decorated Fighter Pilot and Test Pilot, Explorer, Entrepreneur and Humanitarian who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and over 27 hours of EVA during four spacewalks. He flew on the US Space Shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and the International Space Station. Ron is also an aquanaut and participated in the joint NASA-NOAA, NEEMO-9 mission in Aquarius, the world’s only undersea research laboratory.  Ron’s last assignment was in NASA's Open Innovation Initiative, which seeks to increase openness, transparency, collaboration, and innovation within government.


Friday, July 5th at 9:30 pm PDT

UH Aquaculture Program (45, 82, 25)

Press Release: Guy Jetts: "Kitt Peak and the Observatories of Southern Arizona"

Kitt Peak National Observatory was the first major observatory complex when established over fifty years ago.   This national observatory became a catalyst for the numerous astronomical sites of southern Arizona. The evening’s talk will discuss why and how a national observatory came to be, and why it was sited at Kitt Peak. 

The evening’s speaker, Guy Jette, will discuss the major observatories/telescopes in operation at this site, including the McMath Solar Telescope, which has been the largest solar telescope for fifty years. This distinction will soon pass to the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope now under construction on Haleakalā. The relationships between other telescopes in southern Arizona and those on both Haleakalā and Mauna Kea will be highlighted. The talk will include key research, from Kitt Peak’s major role in identifying the existence of dark matter to a new $100 million dollar project called Big BOSS (Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey), a project with ties to Haleakalā's Pan-STARRS.


Friday Jan 18, 9:30PM

UH Aquaculture Program (45, 82, 25)

Astronomy Events at the University of Hawaii

"Searching for Earths" Univ Hawaii Astronomy Talk Series

"Seventeen years ago, astronomers wondered whether planets orbited other stars, perhaps inhabited by beings that were peering back at us. Now we know that exoplanets abound – but what are these other worlds like, and how does our own solar system stack up? Are there good prospects for finding habitable worlds?"

By: Dr. Debra Fischer
When: Monday, June 4 at 9:30 PM PDT
Where: UH Aquaculture Program (45, 83, 27)

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"Watch the Venus Transit Live (from Haleakala, Maui) June 5th, 2012, From 12 noon until 6:30 HST."
web: http://kopiko.ifa.hawaii.edu/videos/livestream.html
SecondLife: IFA Ampatheater, UH Aquaculture Program (45, 82, 25)