Upcoming Events

Please check with the sponsoring organization for specific times and locations for all events. For events on Oahu, call 956-6712. For Big Island events, call 933-0891.

Tuesday, July 24

• IfA Manoa Colloquium
  3:30 p.m., Auditorium Gil Moretto, University of Durham, UK "Melding Good Optics and Good Astronomy: Making Every Photon Count!"
• Friends Summer Stargazing Event, Oahu, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4

• Public Talk
  Mauna Kea Observatory Outreach Committee, Big Island

Thursday, August 16

• IfA Manoa Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., Auditorium Lothar Strueder, Max-Planck-Institute for Semiconductor Research

Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18

• Public Talk
  Mauna Kea Observatory Outreach Committee, Big Island

Saturday, October 6

Third Annual Open House

Go to the Open House web page

Date: Saturday, October 6
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location:
Institute for Astronomy Manoa Headquarters
2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu
Admission: Free + free parking

Opportunities to:

• View the spots on the Sun
• Observe planet Venus
• Make miniature comet
• Grind a telescope mirror
• Shoot off "bottle rockets"
• Make impact craters like those on the moon
• See a computer planetarium show

Tours:

• Machine Shop where precision telescope components are crafted
• Instrumentation Laboratories showing telescope instruments under development

Mini-Lectures including:

• "Telescopes of Mauna Kea"
• "Active Galaxies"
• "The Danger from Earth Approaching Asteroids"
• "Archeoastronomy in Hawaii"
• "Dark Matter - The Universe's Missing Mass"