A History of Astronomy on Mauna Kea and the Case for the TMT

by Prof. Roy Gal (IfA, UH Manoa)

Thursday Sep 5, 2019, 3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Pacific/Honolulu

112 (Watanabe Hall)

I will present a history of the development of modern astronomy in Hawaiʻi. I will describe some of the planned TMT science, why Maunakea is the preferred site, and address some of the common misconceptions about the TMT project.

 

A video of the talk and a pdf file of the slides are included below.

 

Maunakea_TMT_RGal.pdf

Video - Prof. R. Gal