Aloha WHAC Members, The `Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai`i has offered open houses to various community groups over the past 11 days, held a celebration ...
Hello, As promised, here's a brief update on Supernova SN2006X in the Virgo Cluster galaxy M100, for those planning to observe at the Dark Site on Saturday...
Hi WHAC'os, Beginning this coming week, several of us are starting the 2003 set of astronomy lectures by Dr. Alex Filippenko. Everyone is invited to join us!...
Hello All, As Craig Nance presented yesterday at the Club meeting, a nice supernova was found in M100, a spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, about 10 days ago....
I just got back from two nights of viewing in Ocean View. Wednesday night was not that great. It was overcast until midnight, but then I nap until 11:00pm...
Aloha WHAC Members, Astronomer Richard Wainscoat of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy will give a public "AstroTalk" on the UH Hilo campus ...
This week's features: 1) Communicating with Extraterrestrials 2) The Expansion of the Universe Location: Keck Hualalai conference room (regular Keck WHAC...
Sorry for the spam WHAC Members, but I erred in the subject heading last time... Astronomer Richard Wainscoat of the University of Hawaii Institute for...
Aloha WHAC Members, Artist Jon Lomberg will give a public "AstroTalk" on the UH Hilo campus on Friday, January 20th. Lomberg's talk, scheduled for 7 pm at the...
Hey guys and gals. Check out http://www.spaceweather.com/ Craig was talking about observing the ISS tonight. SPACE STATION: Earlier this month, a bright light...
Hi Everyone, During our last club meeting I mentioned a spectacular pass of the ISS the evening of January 18. Several people have asked me to repeat the...
Our scribe was early this month...and some new help has resulted in a quicker turnaround for the meeting minutes to the web. So, if you missed the meeting...
Aloha WHACos! Tomorrow night , January 10th, is our next meeting, which will be held at CFHT. This month, in lieu of a guest speaker, we have opted to...
Hi Everyone, I put a report of our last star party on the web (under observing reports). There's a map to the site as well. I've updated the club news page...
Big news everyone.....We're now official with DLNR! I met with DLNR this morning, and received a permit for tonight's event. In addition, we have agreement...
Aloha, The weather report for this week looks very promising....I think we'll have little/no cloud cover, mild temperatures, and hopefully steady/light...
Aloha WHACos! The next two Filippenko lectures, "The Birth and Life of Galaxies" and "Quasars - Cosmic Powerhouses" will be shown tomorrow night, Tuesday...
Aloha, I hope you don't mind me sharing the latest version of the Keck Observatory newsletter. Also, the Karen Meech lecture about results from the Deep...
Aloha, Several of us are thinking of going out on Dec 30th for a 1/2 night observing session (about dusk to Midnight/1am) at the DNLR site south of Waikoloa...
Aloha Cabbot! We have two club members that have "observatories" in Mtn. View. I live in Waimea and our meetings are held at Keck and CFHT, both headquartered...
Aloha WHACos, Due to the passing of long-time Keck employee Bob Moskitis, we will not be showing the Filippenko lectures tomorrow night. We will resume the...
Hi All, I joined this group now. I am from India doing my PhD on Meteorites in Torino(Italy). Hope to exchange with you all good and exciting information on...
Aloha, Don Clark, Trustee and former Chairman of the Adler Planetarium, will be renting two homes at the Mauna Kea resort (Fairways South) and has asked our...
Hello WHACos, Reminder that our monthly meeting of the West Hawaii Astronomy Club will be Tuesday Dec 13 at 7pm. The meeting location is the Keck HQ in...
Aloha 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: One...
Aloha WHACos! The weather looks pretty good, so I'm going to head up to the VIS tonight. If anyone wants to join me, call me at 885-1992, or I'll see you...
Aloha 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: #...
Aloha WHAC Members, Listen to what astronomers have to say about surviving real astrophysical perils on Thursday, December 1st at 7:00 pm at the University of...