Hoku Newsletter

The latest CFHT Hoku Newsletter is now available.

New Books in Manoa!

Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics / ESO Symposium [QB 1 .E74 2002]

From Twilight to Highlight: the physics of supernovae / ESO Workshop [QB 843 .S95]

Modern Celestial Mechanics Aspects of Solar System Dynamics [QB 351 .M67 2002]


DVD:

Hubble: 15 years of discovery ESA [QB 500.268 .H824 2005]

Deep Impact Events on 3 Islands

Here is a listing of some of the various activities connected with the Deep Impact Mission being offered on the Islands of Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu. For further information and links to news articles, see the AstroDay Deep Impact Hawaii page.

Deep Impact - Hilo
     UH Institute for Astronomy Director Rolf-Peter Kudritzki will open the program at 6:00 pm on Sunday, July 3rd in the UH Hilo UCB 100. We will have NASA Discovery Program Manager Todd May, NASA OSS Outreach Manager Shari Asplund, UHH astronomy professor Richard Crowe, and Subaru Telescope astronomer Cathy Ishida on a discussion panel that will give a running commentary on events as they unfold throughout the evening.
     Video conferences will be held with astronomers at most of the observatories on Mauna Kea, including Gemini, NASA IRTF, UH88, JCMT, CFHT, SMA, and CSO before and after the actual impact event, scheduled for 7:52 pm.
     Near real-time images of Comet Tempel 1 will be displayed from telescopes on Mauna Kea, Haleakala, and even the Deep Impact spacecraft.
Contact: Gary Fujihara at (808) 932-2328

Deep Impact - Maui
     Starting at 6:30 pm on July 3rd at the Maui Community College Ka Lama Room 103 (auditorium) Kalaheo High School teacher Sharon Price will host a multimedia event with the support of Pacific Rim Productions, who are donating the use of several large plasma displays and video switching equipment. Joining Sharon will be NASA Payload Mission Specialist Mike Martin, IfA astronomers Shadia Habbal and Jonathan Williams, and Maui astronomer James Armstrong, who will be offering a running commentary on events as they happen throughout the course of the evening.
     Live video conferences with astronomers on Haleakala and an international team of educators and students from Great Britain, Iceland, and Hawaii who will be observing the event with the Faulkes Telescope. The conference will share with the public that substantive research on this cosmic event is not only for professional astronomers and space scientists, but for our teachers and students here in Hawaii.
     Near real-time images will be shared with the public from the Faulkes Telescope, and from other observatories in Hawaii, while the Haleakala Amateur Astronomers offer views of the comet and other wonders of the universe through their telescopes that will be set up on the courtyard near Ka Lama Building.
Contact: Gary Fujihara at (808) 932-2328

Deep Impact - Oahu

Bishop Museum
     The University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy teams up with Bishop Museum and the Hawaiian Astronomical Society in having a "Comet Collision Countdown" starting Sunday evening, July 3rd, at 5:30 pm on the museum grounds. The museum will offer planetarium shows, a reptile exhibit and fun space activities for the whole family.
     UH Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomers Toby Owen, Gareth Wynn-Williams, Jeff Morgan and Mark Willman will give presentations on comets, a background on the Deep Impact mission, and searching for new Earths.
     Several IfA faculty and students will be on the lawn with members of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society, giving views of the comet and offering commentary on events as the unravel throughout the evening.
$3 per person admission charge
Bishop Museum: Contact: Carolyn Kaichi at 847-8203

Sunset on the Beach
     The regular "Sunset on the Beach" program from Waikiki Beach will feature a Deep Impact event overview by UH Institute for Astronomy researcher Robert Joseph, followed by a live feed from NASA TV just before the encounter of the Deep Impact spacecraft probe and Comet Tempel 1.
     The movie, "The Dish" will begin at 8:00 pm, but may be interrupted for updates as events unfold.
Sunset on the Beach: Contact: Mona Wood at 218-5546

More Deep Impact AstroTalks

Tuesday, June 28 at UH Hilo UCB100 at 7:00 pm
Alex Filippenko returns to speak about "The Big Bang - Truth or Nonsense?"

Thursday, June 30 at UH Hilo UCB100 at 7:00 pm
NASA Discovery Program Manager Todd May will talk about missions to date, including those currently under development, and give an overview specifically of the Deep Impact Mission.

More Deep Impact

Maura Rountree-Brown, who has been with the Deep Impact mission since it was proposed in 1999, will give a public AstroTalk at UH Hilo on Monday, June 27th at 7 pm. She will give an overview of the mission and its journey to the July 3rd encounter with Comet Tempel 1.

Also, there is a very nice article on Karen Meech and her involvement with the Deep Impact mission in this week's MidWeek (although it's not posted on the website yet, so you'll have to grab a paper copy).

Deep Impact News

The latest Deep Impact Newsletter is now available.

New Books in Manoa!

Most of these are currently on the New Book shelf in Manoa. The last two items are shelved in Manoa on the regular shelves:

EAS Publications Series

v.1: Active galactic nuclei in their cosmic environment (JENAM 1999) [QB 858.3 .J462 1999

v.3: Star formation and the physics of young stars [QB 806 .S6722 2000]

v.4: Infrared and submillimeter space astronomy [QB 470 .A1 I45 2002]

v.5: Radiative transfer and hydrodynamics in astrophysics [QB 466 .G38 R32 2002]

v.6 Observing with the VLT interferometer [QB 90 .E87 2002]

v.7: Final stages of stellar evolution [QB 806 .F56 2001]

v.8: Astronomy with high contrast imaging : from planetary systems to active galactic nuclei [QB 51.3 .I45 A87 2002]

v.9: Magnetism and activity of the sun and stars : an international conference to honor the work of Jean-Louis Leroy [QB 539 .23 M33 2003]

v.10: Galactic & stellar dynamics (JENAM 2002) [QB 856 .J45 2003]

v.12: Astronomy with high contrast imaging II : instrumentation for coronagraphy and nulling interferometry [QB 51.3 .I45 A87 2003]

v.13: Evolution of massive stars, mass loss and winds [QB 843 .S9 E96 2002]


Other books:

Astrobiology : a multidisciplinary approach. [QB 325 .L86 2005]

Exploration of the solar system by infrared remote sensing. [QB 603 .I52 E88 2002]

Mars : a warmer, wetter planet. [QB 641 K23 2004]

Optics, by Eugene Hecht, 4th ed. [QB 355.3 .H43 2002]

Plasma physics for astrophysics. [QB 462.7 K85 2005]

Statistical Challenges in Astronomy (III) [QB 149 .S75 2003]

Stellar astrophysics with the world's largest telescopes: First International Workshop on Stellar Astrophysics with the World's Largest Telescopes [QB 799 .I596 2004]

Unsolved universe: challenges for the future (JENAM 2002) [QB 1 .J53 2003]


Other books received that are currently shelved:

In search of the ultimate building blocks, by Gerard ‘t Hooft [QB 794.6 .S75 H66 1997]

Malicorne: earthly reflections of an astrophysicst [QB 981 .R4413 1993]

Na Kilo Hoku

The new issue of Na Kilo Hoku is now online. Information about Deep Impact, the PAN-STARRS protype, awards, honors, exhibits, runners, and much more....

Cassini-Huygens Articles

"Space Science Reviews" is available full text to IfA Researchers who've registered with UHM Hamilton Library. If you are not yet signed up, contact your nearest IfA Librarian for help.

Scott J. Epstein Product Manager/Physics & Astronomy, Springer announces:

"Space Science Reviews", a leading Springer journal, is continuing to publish new papers on the ongoing Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, including analyses of the technology of the mission, the results, and more. Some of the key papers published in the last several months include:

Cassini Radio Science. A. J. Kliore, J. D. Anderson, J. W. Armstrong, et al.

Radar: The Cassini Titan Radar Mapper. C. Elachi, M. D. Allison, L. Borgarelli, et al.

Cassini Imaging Science: Instrument Characteristics And Anticipated Scientific Investigations At Saturn. Carolyn C. Porco, Robert A. West, Steven Squyres, et al.

Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Investigation. D. T. Young, J. J. Berthelier, M. Blanc, et al.

The Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) Investigation. J. H. Waite, W. S. Lewis, W. T. Kasprzak, et al.

The Cassini Cosmic Dust Analyzer. R. Srama, T. J. Ahrens, N. Altobelli, et al.

New Item!!

...on the New Books shelf:


Apparent Places of Fundamental Stars 2005. [REF QB 9 .I5 2005]

New Items!

We have one new book on the New Book shelf...

Astronomy for entertainment by Y. Perelman. [QB 44 .P45 1958]


... and a bunch of CD-ROMs currently shelved on the tall CD Rack near the preprints:

ACT Reference Catalog [QB 6 .U86 A28 1997 CD-ROM]

Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Science Archive, vol.2 no.1, parts A,B, and C [QB 474 .E98 1993 CD-ROM]

ROSAT X-Ray Images, vols.1, 2 and 5 [QB 472 .R67 1998]

UCAC1 First U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog [QB 6 .U23 2000 CD-ROM]

Waves, Oscillations and Small-Scale Transiet Events in the Solar Atmosphere: a joint view from SOHO and TRACE Proceedings of SOHO-13. [QB 528 .W3 2004]

2MASS Second Incremental Data Release DVD [QB 470 .T96 DVD]