Make-A-Wish child Paige Gonzalez and her
family visited Mauna Kea.
Make-A-Wish
Child Paige Gonzalez and her family visited Mauna Kea to fulfill a Wish. (The pictures were
taken and provided by Gary Fujihara at IfA University of Hawaii)
Nine-year
old Make-A-Wish Child Paige Gonzalez visited Mauna Kea with her family
to fulfill a Wish. Along with other observatories and institutes,
CSO contributed a little gift including our T shirts to Paige and her
family. The CSO T shirts were donated by the Creative Arts Hawaii
in Hilo. Please find more detail story on the Make-A-Wish Mauna Kea
Experience web site on Astroday.net.
There was no major damage at the CSO due to
the earthquake happened on October 15th 2006.
The 10.4-meter
Leighton telescope at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, under the
night sky (the photo above was
taken by Jacob Kooi).
We
did not have any major damage at our facilities both at the summit and
in Hilo. We lost no nights of observing due to the
earthquake. The telescope is fully operational.
May 2006
CSO participated AstroDay
2006, held at the Prince Kuhio Plaza in Hilo.
A girl with her
CSO telescope art work, standing in front of the CSO booth,
on AstroDay 2006
(May 6th). Read more...
March
2006
The new 345 GHz wideband receiver, named
Barney, achieved first light in March 2006.
