#maunakea

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Been there, seen 'em (barely)... When you're driving through 3000+ feet you hit the cloud layer and everything is obscured. The 9000ft observation center is a cool place to watch meteor showers like the Perseids and the Leonids. Lots of people bring telescopes and let others have a turn viewing. AMAZING place. #Hawaii #MaunaKea #BigIsland #Observatory

35 years ago today a particularly long total #SolarEclipse hit Hawaii and Central and South America - of which astronomers on #MaunaKea made ample use as the legendary #WGBH documentary "Eclipse of th Century" shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRI5FEQbn7o = https://archive.org/details/EclipseoftheCentury (my favorite scene is in minute 45-46 when astronomers rush out of a telescope control room during totality to marvel at the eclipse with their own eyes). See also https://diary4dan.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/heute-vor-25-jahren-bei-der-riesen-sofi-in-mexiko and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/das-sind-die-asteroiden-torifune-kamo%ca%bboalewa ("Eine ungewöhnlich lange Totale Sonnenfinsternis") for further memories of that event I've found online 10 years ago and today.

The Milky Way Over the Maunakea Observatories Credit: Dr. Vera Maria Passegger/NAOJ https://subarutelescope.org/en/gallery/facility/2026/07/08/3738.html #Maunakea #MilkyWay #photography #astrophotography #Hawaii #astrodon #SubaruTelescope #telescopes

Giant telescope project, long planned for Hawaii, gets cozy with Spain Spain’s €400 million offer could induce Thirty Meter Telescope to switch sites https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-telescope-project-long-planned-hawaii-gets-cozy-spain #TMThawaii #TMT #Astronomy #Hawaii #Maunakea #science #news #Astrodon #Spain