{"id":11100,"date":"2020-04-20T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?p=11100"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T00:56:01","slug":"eao-and-imiloa-provide-stellar-night-to-local-cub-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/2020\/04\/eao-and-imiloa-provide-stellar-night-to-local-cub-scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"EAO and ‘Imiloa provide ‘Stellar’ Night to local Cub Scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, March 7th, 2020, the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, Hawai’i hosted 70 visitors for a special overnight event.\u00a0 As part of the “Stellar Night at the Museum”, the Cub Scouts and their family members were treated to a unique visit at the East Asian Observatory base facility.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy photo provided to the Hawaii Tribune Herald from the Cub Scouts who attended the Scouts Stellar Night at the Museum overnight March 7 at \u2018Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Telescope System Specialist, Alexis Acohido, provided tours into the JCMT Control Room as live operations were taking place. Photo taken by Emily Peavy.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Extended Operator, Patrice Smith, engaged the visitors with a fun “Alien Eyes” activity that demonstrated how filters can help us sort out information that we wouldn’t be able to normally see with our eyes. Photo taken by Emily Peavy.<\/p><\/div>\n

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EAO Visiting Scientist, Pablo Torne, used spectral tubes and diffraction gratings to explore spectral lines from different molecules. Photo taken by Emily Peavy.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the UKIRT control room, Telescope Operators Jess Stasik and Michael Pohlen used an infrared camera and a cell phone to explore heat. Photo taken by Emily Peavy.<\/p><\/div>\n

An article was released in the local Hawaii Tribune Herald newspaper about the event, and can be read here:<\/p>\n

www.hawaiitribune-herald.com\/2020\/04\/14\/community\/scouts-have-a-stellar-night-at-the-museum\/?fbclid=IwAR1_Glc82elyoAlbRh84_q4z6x_-1J3FlZ0kuGoXuE4jYoJrgM1sgMH9B9E<\/a><\/p>\n

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On Saturday, March 7th, 2020, the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, Hawai’i hosted 70 visitors for a special overnight event.\u00a0 As part of the “Stellar Night at the Museum”, the Cub Scouts and their family members were treated to a unique visit at the East Asian Observatory base facility.  \u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,16,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11100"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}