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Shadow the Scientists: Astronomy Night

  • Ohana Kilo Hoku Honolulu, HI 96813 (map)

Please use the link below to register for the event. We will send an email before the event begins to everyone who registers:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexFYIPV6tbS2rHgl03de0nMEuPB_STnIZ07LuIsQ8D1jm4Lw/viewform

Starting Wednesday morning January 12 at 12:30 *am* Hawaii time (think late Tuesday night) and running to 6 am, the team will be observing COSMOS again, this time using the Subaru telescope. The team will be exploring a giant grouping of galaxies using a technique called narrowband imaging. This technique employs specialized filters that allows the the team to take pictures that are sensitive to the star-forming regions of galaxies. The grouping of galaxies is known as the Hyperion proto-supercluster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_proto-supercluster), which was discovered by the team three years ago using observations from telescopes around the world. The Subaru observations will be used to continue to map out this structure of galaxies, to measure distances to galaxies within the structure, and to determine which parts of Hyperion contain galaxies that are rapidly forming stars.

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