International Year of Astronomy Lecture Series

October 28, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library, Room 301

Telescopes: Big and Small

Dr. Alan T. Tokunaga

IRTF Division Chief and IfA Associate Director, Instrumentation

While new large telescopes garner much of the press coverage, the mid-size telescopes (less than about 4 meters in diameter) continue to be major contributors to astronomical research. Tokunaga will highlight the research done with the 3.0-meter (9.8 ft) NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), a telescope on Mauna Kea dedicated for planetary science and mission support, operated for NASA by the University of Hawaii.

He will also review the increase of telescope aperture from Galileo's time to the present, where telescopes as large as 30 meters in diameter are now being planned.


Ticket Information
free & open to the public

Event Sponsor
Cosponsored by the Institute for Astronomy, the Friends of IfA, and UH Library, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Teri Skillman, 956-8688, skillman@hawaii.edu, http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/about/news/libevents/events2009.html

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