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An evening of astronomy highlighted the February 4th Mooch attended by over seventy members. Astronomers Randy Campbell and Josh Walawender brought Hualalai Club members up-to-date in the world of planets, stars, black holes, exoplanets, and why our Mauna Kea is so important to the field. Stargazing came next.
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An artist’s rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope complex. A judge recommended on Wednesday that the board issue a new permit.THIRTY METER TELESCOPE The stars are still in reach for astronomers who want to build a $1.4 billion telescope on top of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. A year and a half after the […] HONOLULU — Six carefully selected scientists will spend the next eight months living inside a man-made dome on a remote Hawaii volcano as part of a human behavior study that could help NASA as it draws up plans for sending astronauts on long missions to Mars. The four men and two women moved into […] Member, Bill McDowell, has traveled from Antartica to the Arctic the past few months. Julie Wrigley, his partner, went to Antartica with him. Bill’s photographic ability keeps growing and we try to share his art with you. We hope you’ve enjoyed his photography and you will continue to as he passes them to us.
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On the way to Mars, Neil Scheibelhut stopped by Walmart for mouthwash and dental floss. “We’re picking up some last-minute things,” he said via cellphone last Wednesday afternoon from the store. Mr. Scheibelhut is not actually an astronaut leaving the earth. But three hours […] Check out the September 2012 issue of The National Geographic. The enclosed map is a full map of Mauna Kea from its base 18,900 feet below sea level to its summet at 13.796 feet. You will probably want a couple for your guests to see. […] Click to read more about it On June 5, 2012, the Earth, Sun, and the planet Venus will briefly line up, and the Venus will slowly move across the Sun’s face, like a tiny eclipse. This is in fact the rarest eclipse visible from Earth, called a Transit of Venus. This June American astronomers are flocking to Hawaii’s observatories from […] Michael Mumma speaks to one of younger members of the audience Michael Mumma of the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center spoke at the Monday night reception. His topic was about finding methane gas on Mars. Michael is one of the leading astronomers who are working on finding out if there has been or there […] |