{"id":15524,"date":"2013-04-08T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=15524"},"modified":"2020-11-10T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T01:13:43","slug":"institute-for-astronomy-holds-annual-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/08\/institute-for-astronomy-holds-annual-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute for Astronomy holds annual open house"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Bottle rocket launches at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa’s Institute for Astronomy open house. (photo courtesy of IfA<\/abbr>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy will hold their annual open house<\/a> at its Mānoa headquarters on Sunday, April 14, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. The open house features activities, talks, displays and demonstrations for all ages. <\/p>\n

New activities this year include remote observing on a telescope in Africa (weather in Africa permitting); the opportunity to build and control a robot; a display about ATLAS, the system being built at Institute for Astronomy to warn scientists about incoming space rocks; astrophotography experts to answer questions about taking photographs of the nighttime sky; a scale model of the solar system on the institute lawn; and a hologram of the Thirty Meter Telescope proposed to be built on Mauna Kea. <\/p>\n

Open house visitors can make a sundial or a comet, observe sunspots with a telescope (weather permitting), launch a bottle rocket, or listen to talks about black holes, the search for habitable planets around other stars, and the latest discoveries by NASA space missions to comets.<\/p>\n

Admission and parking will be free. Lunch will be available for purchase. For more, information, visit the open house website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Nicole Atienza<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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