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| Mahalo to 'Imiloa's Newest Members!
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& Judah Daggett
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& David Craver
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& Iris Asuncion
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New Silver Members
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Renewed
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Kolin Kettleson
Thelma Kurokawa
Monika Lindsey
Robert McAllister
Nancy McGilvray
Donald Murray
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& Ellen Okimoto
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'Apelila (April) Calendar
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Merrie Monarch Events at 'Imiloa
Ready for some Merrie Monarch edu-tainment? Merrie Monarch Events at 'Imiloa returns April 10th-13th with an excellent lineup of music, workshops, lectures and performances! Come and enjoy a unique experience at one (or all!) of our offerings:
Tuesday, April 10th: 10:00am - 11:00am
Na Haumana O Ke Kula 'O Nawahiokalani'opu'u Hawaiian Medium Education School
Puna Lei Onaona
Hula performance
Tuesday, April 10th: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Na Haumana O Ke Kula 'O Nawahiokalani'opu'u Hawaiian Medium Education School
'Au Kai 'Imi Loa
Panel discussion and song
Wednesday, April 11th: 10:00 - 11:30 am
Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole and Kekuhi Kanahele
Welo
Musical performance
Wednesday, April 11th: 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Weldon Kekauoha
Weldon Kekauoha
Musical performance
Thursday, April 12th: 10:00 - 11:30 am
Adrienne Kaeppler
Na Momi Makamae
Lecture
Thursday, April 12th: 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Kainani Kahaunaele
'Ohai 'Ula
Musical performance
Friday, April 13th: 10:00 - 11:30 am
Kanaka'ole 'Ohana
Ka Welo Hula
Panel discussion
Friday, April 13th: 1:00 - 3:00 pm
The Hula Preservation Society in Collaboration with Hakipu'u Learning Center
Honoring the Ancients
Hula performance and workshop
Please visit our Merrie Monarch webpage for more information or call our front desk at 969-9703. Admission to each session is $5 for members, $6 for non-members and goes toward future enrichment programming at 'Imiloa. Call or visit us to get your tickets today!
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Kealopiko Trunk Show April 13th 
Another to-do during Merrie Monarch week: check out the Kealopiko Trunk Show at 'Imiloa! Stop by 'Imiloa's Bank of Hawaii Museum Store on Friday, April 13 between 11am and 2pm to get your hands on the latest gear from the local brand known for their beautiful designs inspired by nature, culture and history. Preview some of their goods at www.kealopiko.com.
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'Imiloa Closed Sunday, April 15th
'Imiloa will be closed Sunday, April 15, 2012 for a private event. We will reopen on Tuesday, April 17th and regular hours of operation will resume. We appreciate your understanding.
If you have questions regarding this closure please contact Jeff Harman, Sales & Marketing Manager, at (808) 969-9705 or jharman@imiloahawaii.org.
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Maunakea Skies, April 21st at 7pm
The Birth of Stars Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, can be seen streaming across the sky in the early evening in winter and summer from here in Hawai'i. This "river of stars," made up of billions of distant suns, is marred by dark patches where the light of  those distant stars is blocked by clouds of interstellar dust. This dust is the raw material of star birth.
In the densest clumps within these interstellar clouds, hundreds or even thousands of stars of different sizes and colors are born. Although the process of stellar birth takes millions of years, we can look up at the night sky and see many of these regions at various "ages" and piece together the story of the early life of a star.
In this month's Maunakea Skies presentation Ian Cunnyngham and Dr. Josh Walawender will explore the early phases of star birth when the young stars are still shrouded in their parent gas cloud. As these stars age and grow, they will destroy their parent cloud through stellar winds, radiation, and supernovae. At this stage, they are sometimes visible as spectacular emission nebulae such as the Great Nebula in Orion, visible in the winter sky, or the beautiful Lagoon Nebula, in Hawai'i's summer sky. As groups of young stars evolve, they will emerge from their parent cloud and be visible as a scattering of jewel-like points of light cast against the backdrop of a black sky. These "open clusters" are full of young stars which have just emerged from their stellar nurseries.
Our Sun was once part of one of these stellar nurseries, and later, part of a cluster of stars. Now, roughly 5 billion years later, its stellar siblings have all drifted away, but we can watch as other stars are born and evolve, and we can use them to understand our own star's origin.
Researchers at UH Hilo are also actively examining how stars are born in other galaxies. UH-Hilo student Ian Cunnyngham will describe his research with Professor Marianne Takamiya. Ian has been looking at how the properties of star formation change throughout distant galaxies and will describe how he used observations taken at various Maunakea telescopes to probe star formation in these distant galaxies.
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Ian Cunnyngham
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Ian Cunnyngham is a UH Hilo student originally from Columbus, Ohio and is graduating this semester with a Physics and Astronomy degree. He is an officer in the student-run University Astrophysics Club (UAC) and is active in outreach at the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy on Maunakea. During his time at UH Hilo he has had the opportunity to do research in the physics of chaos with Dr. Philippe Binder and also in astrophysics with Dr. Marianne Takamiya.
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Dr. Josh Walawender
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Dr. Josh Walawender is an astronomer at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and the director of UH Hilo's new Hoku Ke'a instructional telescope. He earned his bachelors degree at the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining the faculty at UH Hilo, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the UH Institute for Astronomy in Hilo. Josh has been an avid amateur astronomer since childhood and still enjoys monthly observing sessions under the Big Island's pristine skies.
April 21st's Maunakea Skies will be hosted by Shawn Laatsch, 'Imiloa's Planetarium Manager. After the guest speakers' featured presentation, Shawn will provide observational highlights of the current night sky over Hawai'i, pointing out prominent constellations and stars one can see during this time of year.
The monthly Maunakea Skies planetarium presentations are held on the third Saturday of each month. Cost is $5 for Individual, Dual, Kupuna and Family members; $3 for Patron Members, Free for Silver, Gold and Corporate Members. Non-member rate is $8. Pre-purchase tickets at the 'Imiloa front desk or by phone at 969-9703. Back to top
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Science Rocks! After School at 'Imiloa
Designed for students in 4-6th grade, 'Imiloa's Science Rocks! After School program runs Wednesdays from 2:30-4:30pm.
April Science Rocks! Topics
April 4 Earth Science April 18 Weather April 25 Mad Math  | |
Mad Math at Science Rocks!
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KTA Family Free Day - Mahalo!
A big mahalo goes to all of you who made it to our 6th Annual KTA Family Free Day! We were blessed with beautiful weather and welcomed over 2,000 visitors who enjoyed free cake, keiki binocular giveaways, Journey through the Universe presentations, 'Imiloa's exhibits and planetarium, and all the engaging activities put on by UH-Hilo! Event sponsor KTA Super Stores brought their barbeque cookout to feed the masses and STARBASE Hawaii was on hand to offer flight simulation fun.
Special mahalo to  KTA Super Stores for their generous sponsorship, KWXX, and all of our awesome volunteers who helped make 'Imiloa's 6th birthday so wonderful: - Boy Scouts of America
- Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
- Gemini Observatory
- 'Imiloa's Lamaku Ambassadors
- Journey through the Universe
- Hilo High Kiwanis Club
- KTA Super Stores
- KWXX
- STARBASE Hawaii
- Subaru Telescope
- UH-Hilo
College of Business & Economics
College of Pharmacy
Education Department
Ka Haka 'Ula Ke'elikolani College of Hawaiian
Language
Na Pua No'eau
Physics & Astronomy Department
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Membership Communication
We will be sending a mailing out to several past members in the next month to let them know what wonderful things we've been up to and invite them to renew & contribute to our success. If you have any questions regarding this letter please contact Sally Marrack, Membership Coordinator, at (808) 969-9719 or smarrack@imiloahawaii.org. If you have recently renewed your membership, mahalo for your continued support!
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Image of the Month
Lasers, Star Trails, and Time-Lapsed...Oh My!
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You may recognize this photo since it was included in last month's Maunakea Skies article. Here is more information on the image and how it was captured.
This long-duration time-lapsed view of the Gemini North telescope facility shows the propagation of the laser guide star (LGS) sodium laser throughout an entire night atop Maunakea. Star trails and the glow of both dusk and dawn fill the sky and provide a backdrop for the orange glow of the Gemini LGS laser as it tracks through the sky. The shortest star trail is that of Hokupa'a (Polaris, the North Star). The LGS laser from the W.M. Keck Observatory and the peak of Haleakala on Maui can also be seen on close examination of the image. The bright streak on the left is the setting moon. From left to right, the observatories are; Subaru, Keck (twin domes), NASA IRTF, and CFHT (just behind Gemini). This photograph was obtained by Joy Pollard of Gemini's Public Information and Outreach office using a 9-mm, circular-format, fish-eye lens looking north from outside of the University of Hawai'i 88-inch telescope on the night of May 21, 2010. Each image was a 30-second exposure using a Canon EOS DI Mark II digital camera. The images used to create this picture were captured as part of a time-lapse movie and then stacked using Adobe Photoshop.
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'Apelila (April) Skies 2012
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Highlights from the Night Sky - April 2012
- Mercury is in the eastern sky before sunrise the second and third week of the month. Look for it around 5am low on the horizon.
- Venus will be visible until around 9pm in Taurus. It is spectacular in the western sky.
- Mars is high in the East at sunset in Leo. It will set around 3am.
- Jupiter is getting lower in the western month and is in Aries. It will be in the southwest setting near 8pm.
- Saturn reaches opposition this month, meaning it will be visible from sunset to sunrise. This takes place on April 15th.
- The Lyrid Meteor shower typically shows 15-25 meteors per hour at the peak on April 22. Look for these in the constellation of Lyra which rises around 10:30pm in the North East.
'Apelila Celestial Calendar
Date Event
April 2 Hoku'ulapina'au (Mars) 9° north of the Moon
April 6 Hoku (Full Moon) at 9:19am HST
April 7 Makulu (Saturn) 6° north of the Moon
April 13 Kaloakukahi (Last Quarter Moon) at 12:50am HST
April 15 Makulu (Saturn) at opposition
Hoku'ulapina'au (Mars) is stationary
April 18 Ukaliali'i (Mercury) 8° south of the Moon
Ukaliali'i (Mercury) at greatest elongation
April 20 Muku (New Moon) at 9:18pm HST
April 22 Lyrid Meteor Shower
Ka'awela (Jupiter) 2° south of the Moon
April 24 Hokuloa (Venus) 6° north of the Moon
April 28 Olekukahi (First Quarter Moon) at 11:57pm HST
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