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Ianuali (January) 2011
Volume 6, Issue 1
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Aloha mai!  

Welcome to 'Imiloa's monthly membership e-newsletter, Kilolani.  Mahalo for your support of our programs.  Please send your comments and feedback to our Membership and Development Office at [email protected] or call (808) 969-9732.
  
Ianuali (January) Calendar
January 8        New planetarium show schedule begins   
January 5        Science Rocks! After School Program: Plants
January 12      Science Rocks! After School Program: Astronomy I 
January 13      University Astrophysics Club's Astro Talk at 4:00 pm
January 15      Maunakea Skies Lecture Series at 7:00 pm
January 19      Science Rocks! After School Program: Astronomy II
January 26      Science Rocks! After School Program: Astronomy III 

Coming Soon:
KTA Family Free Day with Journey Through the Universe - February 13
Science Fair - February 18-27

Daily Planetarium Shows (Tuesday through Sunday)
        11 am             Maunakea: Between Earth and Sky
        1 pm              We Are Astronomers - NEW!
 
       2 pm              Awesome Light 1 (3D)
        3 pm              We Are Astronomers - NEW!                  
 
Saturdays
       9:30-11 am     Keiki Kilohoku Korner activities in the atrium
       10:00 am        Our Place in Space - NEW! 

Special Evening Shows 

Maunakea Skies Lecture Series - Every third Saturday of the month at 7:00 pm


  
What's New on the 'Imiloa Blog? 

CSI - Culture and Science Integration
Top 5 Hawaiian Stargazing Tips
'Imiloa's Hybrid 'Ōhi'a Lehua

Ask the Experts:
Shawn Laatsch, Planetarium Manager
Kalepa Baybayan, Navigator-in-Residence
  

Happy New Year and Happy Birthday 'Imiloa!

Ka'iu Kimura
 
Aloha e Members and Friends,


As 'Imiloa celebrates our first five years of operation, I am reminded of the tremendous community support it took to get 'Imiloa to where it is today.  Thank you for investing in the future of our island and our State by supporting 'Imiloa through your membership and philanthropic support.  We could not have made it this far without your support of our mission and work to engage and inspire the next generation of leaders and innovators in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.


It's easy to focus on what's to come and forget about where we've been and, as I've reflected over our critical formative years, I'm also deeply appreciative of the input and feedback our members and friends have given us along the way.  Your support and investment have helped strengthen the reach and impact of our programs and have helped realize the vision our founders imagined in 2005 of creating a strong future for our island and our State by engaging and stimulating the bright, young minds of Hawai'i's keiki. 


How have we done this?  By engaging the community in relevant and timely educational programming; by sharing the idea with youth and their 'ohana that science is fun, science is everywhere; and science doesn't have to be intimidating.  Our work helps bridge this gap - connecting culture and science and sharing how our ancestors used science to connect and relate to the world around them, whether farming the land or navigating the Pacific with the stars as their guide. 


On Hawai'i Island, 'Imiloa has become a place of gathering, inspiration and connection.  Nationally and internationally, 'Imiloa has become a model of successful cultural and scientific integration for other institutions looking to create a similar resource in their hometowns.  Five years after opening our doors, this mission is now being carried beyond our island home and touching lives of children in other cultures. 


The letters and testimonials we receive from students and parents about the difference 'Imiloa is making in their lives tell the story best.  Read a few of them here.


Thank you for helping to ignite this mission.  I hope that you will choose to continue your support in 2011 so together we can engage and inspire Hawai'i's next and future generation of explorers and innovators.  Please renewing your membership support or give to our educational scholarship fund so that more children can experience these valuable educational programs. 


I look forward to working with you and hope you will join us in celebration of 'Imiloa's five year anniversary February 13, 2011 for KTA Family Free Day, featuring Journey Through the Universe. 


 

Ka'iu Kimura
Executive Director
'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i

  

'Imiloa Celebrates 5th Birthday with KTA Family FREE Day 

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Join us on Sunday, February 13 for our 5th birthday! Come party with us at our 5th Annual KTA Family Free Day featuring Journey Through the Universe on Sunday, February 13 from 9 am to 4 pm.  Made possible by KTA Super Stores generous sponsorship, 'Imiloa exhibits and planetarium film trailers will be offered free to the community.  Also, be sure not to miss the free cake and ice cream for the first 500 people through our doors!  kta_logoDoors open at 9 am.

 

 

 

Please join us as we celebrate our anniversary and our community. 

 

Other activities include:
  
  Journey Through the Universe Presentations
  KTA Food Demonstrations
  Maunakea Observatory Informational/Activity Booths
  Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park OutreachJourney Through the Universe
  Master Gardeners
  Solar Telescopes
  Giveaways and more!
 

Mahalo nui loa event sponsor and 'Imiloa Corporate Member KTA Super Stores!  For more information on Journey Through the Universe, click here

  
NEW Planetarium Shows!

Beginning January 8, see and experience two brand new planetarium films!  We Are Astronomers will show daily at 1 pm and 3 pm and our new keiki film, Our Place in Space shows Saturdays at 10 am.  Catch them before they're gone!

We Are AstronomersWe Are Astronomers - Mondays-Sundays at 1 pm & 3 pm
Do you know what an astronomer does? Today's astronomer is not the lone observer of past centuries. We Are Astronomers reveals the global collaboration, technology and dedication required to answer the unresolved questions of the Universe.

Narrated by David Tennant, We Are Astronomers is an exciting new 360� Fulldome digital planetarium show produced by NSC Creative with input from UK astronomers. This program includes a live tour of the night sky.  Click here to view the trailer of We Are Astronomers.


Our Place in SpaceOur Place in Space - Saturdays at 10 am
While solving a crossword puzzle about the sky, endangered animals explore the cause of day and night, the importance of our star the Sun, the beauty of the constellations, and the variety of objects that make up the Universe.  Join Scarlet McCaw as she journeys around the world to solve a clues learning about astronomical concepts. This program was produced by Sudekum Planetarium in Nashville, Tennessee and includes a live tour of the night sky geared for young children.

  
Plants & Astronomy: January After School Program Science Rocks! 
Science Rocks!
 


Designed for students in 4-6th grade, 'Imiloa's Science Rocks! After School programs runs Wednesdays from 2:30-5:15pm.  Space is limited, so be sure to make your reservations early. 
Check out our after school webpage or contact Gail Loeffler at (808) 969-9729 or [email protected] for more information.

 
January Science Rocks! Topics:
   
    January 5     Plants
    January 12   Astronomy I    
    January 19   Astronomy II
    January 26   Astronomy III
    
Check out these fun experiments from previous Science Rocks! Sessions:

   Water boiling in a vacuum!              Water fountain in a flask!

  
Astro Talk by University Astrophysics Club 

Join the UH-Hilo Astrophysics Club on January 13 at 4:00 pm for their first Astro Talk of the year.  Tanya Cruz Garza from Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be discussing Single Crystal Silicon as a Macro-World Structural Material: Application to Compact, Lightweight High Pressure Vessels.  Learn how strong, low-density single crystal silicon will be used in the next generation of space technology.  
  
Astro Talk is FREE to the public and is held at 'Imiloa's Earl and Doris Bakken Moanahoku Hall.  Contact [email protected] for more information.
  
Maunakea Skies January 15 at 7pm
Subaru Telescope
Subaru Telescope 

Robotics Devices for Multiple Function in Subaru Telescope

When people take photographs we change lenses such as a zoom lens, micro lens, and prime lens due to different purposes to get the best possible images.  The Subaru Telescope has the same function: there are various cameras (instruments) and we exchange them due to different functions and purposes to get the best astronomical images and information. Subaru telescope is located atop of Maunakea (~13,800 feet) where air is thin and our brains do not work well due to less oxygen.  Exchanging heavy instruments and optics can be difficult and dangerous in this environment.  This presentation will discuss how instruments are changed efficiently and safely using the two robotics devices installed at the Subaru Telescope.

Hosted by Shawn Laatsch, 'Imiloa's Planetarium Manager, Maunakea Skies is held every third Saturday in the Planetarium.  Cost is $5 for Individual, Dual, Kupuna and Family members; $3 for Patron Members, Free for Silver, Gold and Corporate Members, and $8 for non-members. 
Dr. Usuda
 
Dr. Tomonori Usuda was born in Nagano, Japan. When he was a little boy, he was fascinated Japanese Robot cartoons such as Con Battler V and Maginger Z.  Dr. Usuda received a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Tokyo in 1997. He moved to Big Island in February 1998, when the winter Olympic was held at Nagano. He was appointed the chief of the telescope engineering division from 2002 and made associate director of Subaru in 2006.  His major of research is infrared astronomy to study formation of stars and planets. Dr. Usuda has also designed and built a number of infrared instruments for the study of massive star formation.
  
'Imiloa on the Road!
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In November, 'Imiloa staff kept busy sharing 'Imiloa's mission with peer science and culture centers in California, British Columbia and Tahiti.   

'Imiloa's Navigator-in-Residence Kalepa Baybayan, Executive Director Ka'iu Kimura, Marketing Manager Jeff Harman, Planetarium Operator Christopher Phillips and Kona artist Gary Eoff, presented at the California Academy of Science's Hawai'i NightLife event.  1,500 attendees had the opportunity to learn about the star compass and star lines, "drive" through the near universe exhibit featuring voyaging tools and implements, and see the latest Na'alehu Anthonony documentary, Papa Mau, Wayfinder


The Pacific Peoples Partnership hosted the Pacific Wayfinder Conference: Celebrating Indigenous Knowledge and Leadership, 35 Years of Action & Solidarity, at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.  The partnership is a collaborative effort of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands and Pacific Rim.  Kalepa Baybayan delivered the keynote address, He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above.

Tahiti
Baybayan with Hokule'a Crew Members Snake AhHee & Ka'iulani Murphy in Tahiti

In Papeete, Tahiti, Baybayan participated in crew training and community workshops on voyaging and navigation.  These workshops were held in conjunction with the Tahitian voyaging canoe Fa'afaite, who along with 6 other deep-sea canoes intend to sail to Hawai'i next Spring.  The planned voyage will be the largest contingent of deep-sea canoes in the modern voyaging era to attempt a crossing as a singular fleet. 
  
Gourd Cultivation at 'Imiloa 
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The Polynesian colonists who peopled the Hawaiian Archipelago brought seeds and cuttings of many useful plants.  Among them was the ipu (gourd), which was used more extensively here than any other place in the Pacific Basin.  Gourd cultivation was developed in Hawai 'i and ipu played an important role in the life of early Hawaiians where they were crafted into bowls, plates, covered containers, drums, and canoe bailers. 


Ipu Trellises at 'Imiloa
In our efforts to perpetuate these traditions, 'Imiloa is cultivating a gourd garden now composed of 6 trellises.  We plan to stagger the plantings to determine the best growing parameters.  Renown ipu artist, Gary Eoff, is training 'Imiloa volunteers and staff in gourd carving.  Our hope is that we will produce enough gourds to offer public gourd-carving workshops in the future. 
  
Image of the Month

Life & Arsenic in Mono Lake

Mono Lake

Credit: Wikipedia, Jodi Switzer Blum

Life may be stranger than imagined. Bacteria in Mono Lake's 4.5-mile-wide lakebed (shown here from nearby Mount Dana in California) can not only tolerate large amounts of normally toxic arsenic, but also can use arsenic as a substitute for phosphorus. This result is astonishing and perhaps controversial because phosphorus is an element needed by every other known Earth-based life form. The inset shows GFAJ-1, the unusual arsenic-loving bacteria that may be able to survive on another world. The image of GFAJ-1 shows an area less than 20 millionths of a meter across.

  
Ianuali (January) Skies 2011
  
January Sky

Highlights from the Night Sky - January 2011
  • Mercury is visible the second week of January just before sunrise low in the eastern sky.
  • Mars is too close to the Sun to see this month and also in February. 
  • Jupiter is high in the southwest at sunset and is an early evening object. If possible explore with binoculars to see the Galilean Moons.
  • Saturn rises around 1am and is visible to sunrise.  Small telescopes easily reveal its wonderful rings.
  • Venus rises 3 hours before the Sun and is brilliant in the morning sky. Try using binoculars to see its phase. 

 
 
Ianuali Celestial Calendar 
Date                                Event

Sunday, Jan 2              Ukaliali'i (Mercury) 4� north of the Moon

Monday, Jan 3              Earth at Perihelion
                                 Muku (New Moon) at 11:03pm HST

Saturday, Jan 8            Hokuloa (Venus) at greatest western elongation

Sunday, Jan 9              Ukaliali'i (Mercury) at greatest western elongation

Monday, Jan 10            Ka'awela (Jupiter) 7� south of the Moon

Wednesday, Jan 12       'Olekukahi (First Quarter Moon) at 1:31am HST

Wednesday, Jan 19       Hoku (Full Moon) at 11:21 am HST

Tuesday, Jan 25           Makulu (Saturn) 8� north of the Moon

Wednesday, Jan 26       Kaloakukahi (Last Quarter Moon) at 2:57am HST

Thursday, Jan 27          Makulu (Saturn) appears stationary

Saturday, Jan 29          Hokuloa (Venus) 3� north of the Moon 

  
Fall Events at 'Imiloa

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Kanikapila Soundz
L-R: Fuchigami, Arkangel, Brother Noland, Tripp Jr.
Our latest installment of the 'Imiloa After Dark series, Kanikapila Soundz, was a huge hit!  We would like to extend our warmest mahalo to Brother Noland, Rupert Tripp Jr., Lito Arkangel, Kris Fuchigami, and 'ukulele artisans Kawika Hurd and Tom Chun. 

If you missed out or just want to relive the magic, check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV7ElHj0hHw 


Save the date for our next 'Imiloa After Dark event coming up on March 12.  Contact Jeff Harman at [email protected] for more information. 


Member Holiday Party
'Imiloa Volunteers
Susan & Aiko

It's good to be a member!  Our annual Member Appreciation Holiday Party took place on December 17.  Santa visited member families in our Exhibit Hall and members enjoyed storytelling from around the world, gingerbread house and cookie decorating stations, planetarium shows, and hands-on educational stations like PicoCrickets, a Look-N-See Bug Magnification station, and ShrinkyDink holiday ornament making.

Members were also treated to a very special performance by 50 keiki hula from Māhu'ilauola of Ke Kula 'O Nāwahīokalani'ōpu'u.

A special mahalo goes out to all our members who attended; KTA Super Stores for their generous donation of cookies for our members to decorate; and to the students of Nāwahīokalani'ōpu'u for their fantastic performances!
  
punchcard'Imiloa Member Loyalty Card

SAVE $ with our new 'Imiloa Member Loyalty Card!  For every five dollars spent at our Bank of Hawaii Museum Store, get your card punched toward a $5 savings once your card is filled.  Be sure to visit the store on your next visit to get your punch card.
  
Enjoy the Benefits by Giving Through Your IRA!

UHF
On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. This legislation provides wide-ranging income, capital gains and estate tax relief.

Of special interest to supporters of 'Imiloa and the nonprofit community is renewal of the IRA Charitable Rollover for 2010 & 2011.

The key benefits and terms of this rollover for our donors who are age 70 1/2 and older are:

� Make a gift to a public charity of up to $100,000 from your IRA in 2010 and 2011, without declaring taxable income on withdrawal.

� Count the gift towards your required minimum distribution for the year of the gift.

� Have until January 31, 2011 to complete your 2010 gift.

For a summary of IRA Rollover and related legislation, click here.

We invite you to contact us in confidence to learn more about how this legislation can support your philanthropy while also providing tax benefits to you and your family. Visit us at www.UHFLegacyGift.org to learn more or contact our 'Imiloa Development Office at (808) 969-9732.

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The University of Hawai'i Foundation
, a nonprofit organization, raises private funds to support the University of Hawai'i System.

Our mission is to unite our donors' passions with the University of Hawai'i's aspirations to benefit the people of Hawai'i and beyond. We do this by raising private philanthropic support, managing private investments and nurturing donor and alumni relationships. Please visit www.uhfoundation.org

  
OUR MISSION
imiloa logoCelebrate Hawaiian culture and Maunakea astronomy, sharing with the world an inspiring example of science and culture united to advance knowledge, understanding and opportunity.
  

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