We are deeply saddened to acknowledge the loss of Michael J Thompson. He was a scientist, Director, mentor, colleague, collaborator, and friend. A very thoughtful and kind human being. All in HAO, and many of our colleagues around the world, are shocked at Michael’s sudden passing. Our most sincere sympathy and thoughts are with Michael’s wife Kate, son Robin, and their friends at this time.
On October 6th, the MLSO staff participated in AstroDay 2018, an educational outreach event coordinated by the Mauna Kea Observatories. 3,000 people attended. This was the second occurrence of this event, located in Kailua-Kona, on the west side of Hawaii Island.
Life imitates art, sometimes remarkably well... A recent paper has announced the discovery of an exoplanet around the nearby star 40 Eridani, which had previously been identified as the host star of Vulcan, the fictional home world of Star Trek’s cultural icon, Mr. Spock.
Digital image sensors are ubiquitous in astronomical instrumentation and it is well known that they suffer from issues that must be corrected for data to be scientifically useful.
HD 81809 has one of the highest-quality activity cycles from the sample of stars synoptically observed in the Mount Wilson Observatory HK Project.
Peterson et al. (2015) developed an algorithm for estimating the electric field vector at any point above an electrified cloud from passive microwave observations.
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