Partial Solar Eclipse May 20, 2012Maui Astronomy Club to meet on MAY 20, 2012 for Partial Solar Eclipse Haleakala Crater parking lot - 1:50pm - 4pm (Eclipse begins at 2pm) Bring sunscreen, food, water, camera, chair, $3 for Eclipse Glasses. See you there. Becky Sydney - President Maui Astronomy Club
Total Lunar Eclipse 12/10/1112/10/11 TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE HYATT REGENCY MAUI - 1:30AM - 5AM SUMMARY: WEATHER WAS CLOUDY AND RAINY. GOT TO SEE PIECES OF THE ECLIPSE. THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO MADE IT AND WEATHERED THE WEATHER!
GATHERED ON THE HYATT ROOFTOP.
EDDIE TELLING WONDERFUL STORIES WHILE WE DRINK HOT CHOCOLATE.
SCOPES COVERED IN THE RAIN. WATCHING COOL SPACE MOVIES WHILE WE WAIT.
AHHHHH....THE MOON APPEARS IN PARTIAL ECLIPSE.
REDDISH COLOR STARTING TO SHOW.
MOON ABSORBED IN PENUMBRA.
MY BEST SHOT - - MINUTES BEFORE TOTALITY - - CLOUDS TOOK OVER AFTERWARDS. New kind of Star!
A Star with Spiral Arms
by Dr. Tony Phillips for NASA Science News
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 03, 2011
For more than four hundred years, astronomers have used telescopes to study the great variety of stars in our galaxy. Millions of distant suns have been catalogued. There are dwarf stars, giant stars, dead stars, exploding stars, binary stars; by now, you might suppose that every kind of star in the Milky Way had been seen. That's why a recent discovery is so surprising. Researchers using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii have found a star with spiral arms. The name of the star is SAO 206462. It's a young star more than four hundred light years from Earth in the constellation Lupus, the wolf. SAO 206462 attracted attention because it has a circumstellar disk--that is, a broad disk of dust and gas surrounding the star. Researchers strongly suspected that new planets might be coalescing inside the disk, which is about twice as wide as the orbit of Pluto. When they took a closer look at SAO 206462 they found not planets, but arms. Astronomers have seen spiral arms before: they're commonly found in pinwheel galaxies where hundreds of millions of stars spiral together around a common core. Finding a clear case of spiral arms around an individual star, however, is unprecedented. read more here...... http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2011/11/02/a-star-with-spiral-arms/
IfA OPEN HOUSE 20115th Annual Open House 2011 Institute for Astronomy Open House takes place this Friday, September 23 at 6pm.
Highlights include:
LAB TOURS * SCIENCE DEMONSTRATIONS * TELESCOPES TO LOOK THROUGH
LIQUID NITROGEN ICE CREAM * GUEST SPEAKERS
Location: 34 Ohi'a Ku Street, Pukalani
for more information go to: www.ifa.hawaii.edu or call (808) 573-9500
New ImagesMaui Astronomy Club takes photos using the Faulkes Telescope in July 2011.
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