{"id":7480,"date":"2012-06-22T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T02:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2021-03-31T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:23:01","slug":"kauai-students-educate-public-on-venus-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/06\/22\/kauai-students-educate-public-on-venus-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"<span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> students educate public on Venus transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_7604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7604\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kcc-venus-transit.jpg\" alt=\"A man looking in a telescope\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kcc-venus-transit.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/kcc-venus-transit-260x190.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College Math Instructor Loni Delaplane looks on as Marshall Mock, retired <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> science professor and astronomer, observes the transit of Venus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Natural Science Department at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kauai.hawaii.edu\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a> hosted a viewing of the transit of Venus earlier this month as a service-learning project at Russian Fort Elizabeth in Waimea.<\/p>\n<p>The public was invited, including high school students from <span aria-label=\"Kapaa\">Kapa&#699;a<\/span> High School, Waimea High School, Kawaikini Charter School and Island School.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College provided all equipment necessary for the safe observation of the event, including a new state-of-the-art, computer-controlled telescope that was employed to produce photographs and the best possible view for those who attended.<\/p>\n<p>Four students&#8212;<strong>Haley Adamic<\/strong>, <strong>Chloe Stokes<\/strong>, <strong>Jin-Wah Lau<\/strong> and <strong>Travis Manning<\/strong>&#8212;also presented information about the transit and pointed out the importance of historical transits for the understanding and calculation of the size of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>See a photo gallery of the event featured this week in <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s daily newspaper, <em>The Garden Island<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article by <strong>Michael Hannawald<\/strong>, <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College chemistry and physics instructor, about the event and <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span>i&#8217;s historical role in the last transit of Venus on the college&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kccscoop.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/venus-transit-waimea-and-kauai-ccs.html\">Campus News blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a service learning project, <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College students hosted a public viewing of this month&#8217;s transit of 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