{"id":33258,"date":"2015-04-01T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=33258"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T00:28:06","slug":"institute-for-astronomy-holds-popular-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/institute-for-astronomy-holds-popular-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute for Astronomy holds popular open house"},"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_33260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33260\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/manoa-ifa-open-house-infrared.jpg\" alt=\"infrared picture\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/manoa-ifa-open-house-infrared.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/manoa-ifa-open-house-infrared-260x257.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Open House goers will have the chance to see what they look like in infrared. (photo by Zack Gazak)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/homepage\/\">Institute for Astronomy<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa will host its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/open-house\/open-house.shtml\">annual open house<\/a> on Sunday, April 12, 11 a.m.&#8211;4 p.m. The theme for 2015 is the International Year of Light, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly to raise awareness of the importance of light and light-based technologies for sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>Light-related activities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sun observing with telescopes<\/li>\n<li>Astrophotography<\/li>\n<li>Infrared camera that allows event attendees to see what they look like at infrared wavelengths<\/li>\n<li>Talk about the invisible (to our eyes) universe<\/li>\n<li>Spectroscopy school to learn how astronomers use the rainbow of light from distant objects to understand their composition and temperature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More open house activities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Air-powered rockets brought by<a href=\"http:\/\/superm.math.hawaii.edu\/\"> <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M&#257;noa SUPER-M<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Hands-on physics toys from the staff of the <a href=\"http:\/\/aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu\/imaginarium.html\">Windward Community College Imaginarium<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3-D printer demonstration and a wind tunnel courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificaviationmuseum.org\/\">Pacific Aviation Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bishop Museum&#8217;s Digitalis portable planetarium<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu\/\">Polynesian Voyaging Society<\/a> talks<\/li>\n<li>Tours of the CAVE, a 3-D virtual environment<\/li>\n<li>Ask an Astronomer activities<\/li>\n<li>Keiki activities like face painting, sundial making and bottle-rocket launching<\/li>\n<li>A talk by <strong>Brent Tully<\/strong> explaining the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/03\/uh-scientist-maps-supercluster-of-galaxies-names-it-laniakea\/\">Laniakea Supercluster<\/a>&#8212;a vast collection of over 100,000 galaxies whose Hawaiian name honors the Polynesian navigators who used their knowledge of the heavens to cross the immense Pacific Ocean\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Institute for Astronomy open house admission and parking is free. The institute is located at 2680 Woodlawn Drive.<\/p>\n<h2><abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> News video from the 2013 open house<\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QXN3wBy3sTo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The importance of light and light-based technologies for sustainable development will be featured at the Institute for Astronomy open house on April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,35,9,56],"class_list":["post-33258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33258"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148460,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258\/revisions\/148460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}