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.
—Read tributes and remembrances from Michael’s colleagues across the organization and around the world.
—Link to Daily Camera Article.
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.
The variabilities of the semidiurnal solar and lunar tides of the equatorial electrojet (EEJ) are investigated during the 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2013 major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events in this study.
The motions of small-scale magnetic flux elements in the solar photosphere can provide some measure of the Lagrangian properties of the convective flow.
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.
View videos of past colloquia