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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.

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Club Meetings for 2025

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February 11, 2025 - Serge Antonov of Astro Devices.  He is the designer of the Nexus DSC and the new StarDrive system.

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July 8, 2025 - Sergij Mazurenko on the implications of Voids on the Cosmological Model

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August 12, 2025 - Michael Zeiler on Solar Eclipses

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October 14, 2025 - Dr. Floor Broekgaarden, Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at UCSD, on Gravitational Waves.

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November 11, 2025  Randall Hyman | Writer/Photographer on Cosmic Catastrophies.

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December 9, 2025 - Professor Gregory Tarle, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Michigan,  Presentation on the DESI project regarding Dark Energy.

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Club Meetings for 2024

 

June 11 - Chris Modnicki Meteorite Presentation.

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July 9 - Professor Rajendra Gupta on the Cosmological model, Dark Matter and Tired Light.

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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.

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November 12 - Professor Cole Gregg on A Case Study of Interstellar Meteoroid Streams: Alpha Centauri.

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Club Meetings for 2023

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March 14 - Sonny Manley on Solar Astrophotography

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April 11 - Dr. Christopher Hamilton on Volcanoes in the Solar System

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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.

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Club Meetings for 2022

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January 11 - Josh Walawender 

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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

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April 12 - Bernt  Grundseth presentation about an expedition to the  astronomical observatory in Quito, and a trip to the Gallapagos Islands. 

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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?"

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Club Meetings for 2021

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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)

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August 10 - Michael Zeilnhofer on "Impact Cratering on Ceres."

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October 12 - Maureen and Josh about JWST

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November 9 - Dr. Olivier Guyon on Extreme Adaptive Optics

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December 14 -  Wilfred Gee about Project PANOPTES

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