The 2024 IfA Mānoa Open House will be April 21st, 11am-4pm!
Free admission and free parking
Event partners and activities:
TWO Portable planetariums with IfA and Bishop Museum
UH Bookstore book and activity sales
NEW! Straw Rockets with American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Student Branch at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
NEW! Design a Paper Rocket craft with First Nations Launch Team Ka Hui O’Kaulele
NEW! Maunakea Scholars and WHMSO with Waipahu High School
Hawaiʻi Lego Users Group (HILUG) display and Lego® building area
Fun with Robots with Hawaiʻi Space Grant Consortium
Solar system walk
Hawaii Rockets
All About CubeSats with Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory
UV Bracelets with Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory
Liquid nitrogen demos with NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF)
Make-a-sundial and Make-a-constellation crafts
Pan-STARRS and ATLAS sky surveys
Bottle rockets
Makahiki games
Solar viewing and solar spectrum
Sundial making (in memory of Paul Coleman)
Spectroscopy School
T-shirt sales
Ask an Astronomer
Family-friendly astro talks:
12:10pm Planetary Defense Goes Green, by ATLAS Project Scientist Larry Denneau
12:50pm Challenges of the Ambitious April 8 Total Solar Eclipse Expedition, by IfA Astronomer Shadia Habbal
1:30pm Enhanced Night Vision: Sharpening Our View of the Universe with Adaptive Optics!, by IfA PhD student Maria Vincent
2:10pm Imaging Other Worlds: Today & Tomorrow, by IfA Astronomer Mike Liu
2:50pm A Decade of Finding Real Tatooines, by Astronomer Nader Haghighipour