
West Hawaii Astronomy Club
Club Meeting on Second Tuesday of Every Month at 6:00 p.m. HST by Zoom and when in person meetings resume, in Waimea at Keck.
Club Meetings for 2025
February 11, 2025 - Serge Antonov of Astro Devices. He is the designer of the Nexus DSC and the new StarDrive system.
July 8, 2025 - Sergij Mazurenko on the implications of Voids on the Cosmological Model
August 12, 2025 - Michael Zeiler on Solar Eclipses
October 14, 2025 - Dr. Floor Broekgaarden, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at UCSD, on Gravitational Waves.
November 11, 2025 Randall Hyman | Writer/Photographer on Cosmic Catastrophies.
December 9, 2025 - Professor Gregory Tarle, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Michigan, Presentation on the DESI project regarding Dark Energy.
Club Meetings for 2024
June 11 - Chris Modnicki Meteorite Presentation.
July 9 - Professor Rajendra Gupta on the Cosmological model, Dark Matter and Tired Light.
August 13 - Professor Shane Byrne. Dr. Byrne is a Professor at the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona and specializes in various areas of planetary astronomy including astrobiology, planetary surfaces, Titan and the outer Solar System.
November 12 - Professor Cole Gregg on A Case Study of Interstellar Meteoroid Streams: Alpha Centauri.
Club Meetings for 2023
March 14 - Sonny Manley on Solar Astrophotography
April 11 - Dr. Christopher Hamilton on Volcanoes in the Solar System
August 8 - Professor Shane Byrne on “Exploring a dynamic Mars, one giant image at a time”
November 14 - Carl Zambuto, mirror maker and genius in a question and answer forum.
Club Meetings for 2022
January 11 - Josh Walawender
February 8 - Maureen will do What's Up and Lucy mission and JWST update; Josh will lead a general discussion about telescopes on Mauna Kea
April 12 - Bernt Grundseth presentation about an expedition to the astronomical observatory in Quito, and a trip to the Gallapagos Islands.
June 14 - Dr. Greg Wirth presentation relating to the James Webb Space Telescope on "What's so hard about phasing a telescope with just 18 segments?"
Club Meetings for 2021
May 11 - Guest Speaker will be Keck Astronomer Dr. Rosalie McGurk speaking about "A New Tool to Map Entire Galaxies”
June 8 - Dr. Karen Meech on ‘Omuamua'
July 13 - Dr. Michael Lundquist (topic TBD)
August 10 - Michael Zeilnhofer on "Impact Cratering on Ceres."
October 12 - Maureen and Josh about JWST
November 9 - Dr. Olivier Guyon on Extreme Adaptive Optics
December 14 - Wilfred Gee about Project PANOPTES