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Monthly Updates
Monthly Sky Watch:
The Stars Above Hawai'i
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CyberCANOE Presentation Daily at 11:00 am
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In addition to our planetarium programming we also offer a daily (Tues-Sun) 11:00 am live presentation exploring the relationship between earth and sky in our CyberCANOE (Collaborative, Analytics, Navigation and Observation Environment) data visualization theatre. Please join us in this intimate space which allows for lively dialogue and interaction between the audience and the presenter.
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Exclusive
'Ōlelo Hawai'i
keiki shirts
Members - enjoy your 10% discount!
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Inquires? Call
our store
at (808) 932-8903. Don't forget to ask for your 10% member discount. You will also receive Member Loyalty Credit for additional savings!
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Mahalo to our Renewing Corporate Member!
Ke Kapena Member
Ke Kaiao Member
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Mahalo to our Corporate Members!
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Mahalo!
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Mahalo for your support of our programs. Please send your comments and feedback to our Membership Office at imiloa.membership@hawaii.edu or call (808) 932-8926.
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This Month's Articles at a Glance
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MAHALO NUI LOA to all who came to celebrate the Mahalo Hawai'i Sail event with
Hōkule'a
's crew members and organizers of this wonderful occasion on April 27! Residents, visitors, adults and children came throughout the day to tour the canoe and explored the education expo. For more photos, please visit our blog.
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Maunakea Skies, May 4
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Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) creates missions and recruits crewmembers who live in the Mars-like habitat for periods ranging from four to twelve months, in order to better understand the planet's living conditions. Learn more about this quest to make human life possible on the Red Planet at 'Imiloa's
Maunakea Skies
talk with Dr. Brian Shiro, Geology Lead at HI-SEAS on
Friday, May 4 at 7:00pm.
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Navigating the Night Sky is an interactive program that features observations from the Visitor Information Station (VIS) on Maunakea, coupled with a presentation by 'Imiloa staff on the oceanic navigational starlines and Hawaiian Star Compass. Join us Friday, May 11 at 7:00 pm.
Member ticket pricing is $8 for UHH/HawCC Student, Kupuna, Individual, Dual, and Family Members; $6 for Patron Members; Free for Silver, Gold, and Corporate Members. General admission tickets are $10. Pre-purchase tickets at the 'Imiloa front desk or by phone at 932-8901.
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Maunakea Skies-Subaru Telescope,
May 18
Meet & Greet with
Subaru Telescope
Speakers:
Kiaina Schubert
James (Jimmy) Ferreira
Timothy Castro
Yuko Kakazu
Matthew Wung
Host:
Emily Peavy
'Imiloa
What is it like to work
at 14,000ft? What if your job includes shoveling snow in
Hawaii and keeping a camera as cold as -300 fahrenheit? Did you know astronomers are the minority at observatories, only occupying 20% of jobs?
Come meet Subaru's staff on
Friday,
May 18, 7pm at 'Imiloa Astronomy Center to learn the "behind the scenes" of the observatory. Engineers, technicians, and educator at Subaru Telescope will share their experience, various challenges they faced, and how they overcame challenges that led to astronomical discoveries.
Member ticket pricing is $8 for UHH/HawCC Student, Kupuna, Individual, Dual, and Family Members; $6 for Patron Members; Free for Silver, Gold, and Corporate Members. General admission tickets are $10. Pre-purchase tickets at the 'Imiloa front desk or by phone at 932-8901.
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Stargazing Live, May 25
View the cold, clear Maunakea night sky from the comfort of the 'Imiloa planetarium during Stargazing Live. Join us on a journey to explore the stars and distant celestial objects from Maunakea's 9,000-foot level in real time. The next program will take place on
Friday, May 25
at 7pm.
Each month's program focuses on celestial objects seen in that season's sky. In the winter skies over Hawai'i we will look at the Orion Nebula and the Pleiades, and put them in context with Hawaiian traditions.
A Maunakea Visitor Information Station (VIS) staff member will orient the program's participants to the night's sky via a live feed, as well as introduce the instruments and techniques used to view a deep space object. In turn, the 'Imiloa planetarium operator will then take the audience to those objects for a more in-depth look.
Member ticket pricing is $8 for UHH/HawCC Student, Kupuna, Individual, Dual, and Family Members; $6 for Patron Members; Free for Silver, Gold, and Corporate Members. General admission tickets are $10. Pre-purchase tickets at the 'Imiloa front desk or by phone at 932-8901.
Our live stargazing program in partnership with the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy Visitor Information Station (VIS) is held on the last Friday of each month at 7pm.
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Maunakea Speaker Series
Keeping up with the coast: quantifying shoreline change on Hawaiʻi Island
by
Rose Hart, UH Hilo
The next scheduled program in the Maunakea Speaker Series will be held on
Thursday, May 10, 7pm at UH Hilo's Science and Technology Building, Room #109.
Hawaiʻi Island's coastal communities face many challenges in adapting to the impacts of sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and subsidence. To better predict and manage coastal vulnerabilities, this research effort quantified shoreline change rates from the present and recent past for three different coastal settings on Hawaiʻi Island.
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New Planetarium Show Lineup
May 1-31
Tuesday - Sunday
Friday Evening Planetarium Programming at 7 pm
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Image of the Month
Uranus Confirmed to Smell of Rotten Eggs
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Photo Credit_ NASA_JPL-Caltech |
Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus - as has been long debated, but never definitively proven. Based on sensitive spectroscopic observations with the Gemini North telescope, astronomers uncovered the noxious gas swirling high in the giant planet's cloud tops. This result resolves a stubborn, long-standing mystery of one of our neighbors in space.
The above
image of Uranus was taken in 1986 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. For more info, please go to:
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