Hello WHACos! The next two Filippenko lectures, "Lunar Phases and Glorious Eclipses" and "The Early History of Astronomy" will be shown tonight at 7 p.m. in...
Galaxies may have spit out monster black hole Two crashing galaxies may have shot out a "supermassive" black hole that's soaring through space, some...
Aloha WHACos! Tonight's meeting is in the CFHT large conference room beginning at 7. Our guest speaker is Gary Fujihara, the Coordinator for the Science...
Aloha WHAC Members, Dr Richard Ellis, CalTech Director of Optical Observatories, will give a public "AstroTalk" on the UH Hilo campus TONIGHT. Ellis' talk,...
Aloha WHAC Members, Dr Richard Ellis, CalTech Director of Optical Observatories, will give a public "AstroTalk" on the UH Hilo campus on Wednesday, November...
Anyone interested in carpooling from Waimea tonight? The Protostars and Planets V Conference will present an outreach program to the general public entitled, ...
Aloha WHAC Members, The Protostars and Planets V Conference will present an outreach program to the general public entitled, "The Birth of Stars and Planets"....
Aloha, The following gentleman would like to go stargazing after the Christmas New Moon (Dec 27 to Jan 2) with someone who has an 8"-inch aperture or greater....
Hi All, A quick, last-minute update...not a cloud in the sky this afternoon in Waimea. ("ssshhhh, Craig, you just jinxed us!"). If you're coming to the...
Hello WHACos! I'm sure you've read about it in the papers -- our monthly meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday October 11, in the Keck Hualalai conference room...
Aloha WHACos! The University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy will present a "Frontiers of Astronomy" public lecture on the "Early Results of Deep Impact"...
Hello WHACos! Our next meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday 9/13, in the CFHT large conference room beginning at 7. Some of us will be meeting at the Parker Center...
Hello WHACos! Just a reminder that tonight at 7 in the Keck Hualalai conference room we will be showing the next two Filippenko Astronomy class lectures: Space...
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Hi WHACos! We decided at last Tuesday's Astronomy Video showing to accelerate the process by viewing the videos every non-meeting Tuesday night at 7 p.m. That...
Hello All, Cloudy Nights has just announced the winners for their first ATM contest (i.e. instruments made by amateurs). None other than one of the Whacos,...
Aloha, Just a reminder -- we're having stargazing tonight at Waikoloa Elementary school from sunset to 10 p.m. Bring your telescope -- or not! Question -- does...
Hello WHACos! We decided at the last meeting to show the Filippenko videos every fourth Tuesday of the month, which means next Tuesday night at 7 p.m. we will...
Hello WHACos! Tomorrow night, Tuesday August 9th, is the next WHAC meeting. This month the meeting is in the Keck Hualalai conference room. For the gear heads...
Hello WHACos, Sorry for the late notice. The weather forecast for tomorrow night (Saturday) doesn't look too promising, so I'm going to the VIS tonight. If...
Just in case you haven't heard enough about Deep Impact over the last couple of weeks... You can play with the data from both Keck telescopes. All images are ...
Hi guys, I'm brand new here and glad I found you! I have an 8" Celestron SCT that is a basic scope. I bought it used with 3 bottom shelf eyepieces the shortest...
NASA is hosting a group of about 30 introductory college astronomy teachers in Kailua-Kona at the Royal Kona Resort June 20-23. Half the teachers are from...
Aloha, I've been approached by a group of about 30 high school Girl Scouts and adults are spending a week here on the Big Island for the Deep Impact event. On...
Aloha, The National Science Foundation announced today the discovery of the most Earth-like planet known to orbit a star other than our sun. Following is a...
Aloha, I have a friend who is selling a small telescope. Assuming the optics are in good condition (I haven't checked), is she asking a fair price? Laura ...
Aloha, The agenda for the meeting June 14th at Keck HQ has been posted at: http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/realpublic/whac/calendar.html PLEASE BRING YOUR...
Aloha, This is a reminder that the next Astronomy Lecture will be Monday, April 18th at 7pm here at Keck headquarters in the Hualalai conference room. Dr....
Aloha- We've returned back to Las Vegas from our busy 10 days on the island. We thought we'd share a few pictures we took during a moonlight dinner we had on...
