Sentences with phrase «kea summit»

Views of the Mauna Kea summit make a great backdrop for dozens of ocean entry waterfalls cascading over large spectacular sea - cliffs.

Dozens of native Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians gathered at the entrance to Mauna Kea summit on Tuesday to protest further development on their «sacred mountain,» blocking the way for the planned ceremony.

Not exact matches

The wild sheep are available only on the rocky summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii, which also offers the best ranges for pig, pheasant and chukar.

Beyond Keahole Point and the modest summit of Mt. Hualalai rises the tallest island mountain, Mauna Kea.

I am on the summit of Mauna Kea, the highest point in Hawaii.

The twin scopes on the summit of Mauna Kea (pictured) are the most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth.

In June, astronomers unveiled the first images from the new Gemini North Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

The broad - shouldered summit of Mauna Kea holds many meanings for many people: For astronomers, it's a high - altitude playground of stars, among the best places on Earth to explore the firmament with minimal atmospheric distortion.

The moment: Night falls on the Gemini North (foreground) and Canada - France - Hawaii telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

It included a call to remove about one - quarter of Mauna Kea's 13 existing telescopes and alter the management of some of the volcano's summit.

Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs — a state agency established to advocate for Native Hawaiians — voted Thursday to withdraw their support for construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano.

Japan's Subaru visible - light and infrared telescope, located on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, provided optical imaging of the galaxies.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai'i feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

The East Asian Observatory operates the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope located near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrometer and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

«Keck Observatory operates the only telescopes in the world powerful enough to have made this observation,» Kirby said of the twin, ten - meter telescopes housed on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

The twin 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes located on the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii, feature a world - leading suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectroscopy and a laser guide star adaptive optics system.

The galaxies are the smallest, faintest, and most numerous galaxies ever seen in the remote universe, and were captured by Hubble deep exposures taken in ultraviolet light, and confirmed using the mighty Keck I telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Mauna Kea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

A new study has found geochemical clues near the summit of volcanic Mauna Kea that tell a story of ancient glacier formation, the influence of the most recent ice age, more frequent major storms in Hawaii, and the impact of a distant climatic event that changed much of the world.

Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii are providing clues to past climate changes on Earth.

The James - Clerk - Maxwell Observatory is established near the summit of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.

Our students have access to fantastic facilities like the Mont - Mégantic Observatory, where they can get their hands dirty working with real equipment before they go off to remote locations like the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii or the Andes Mountains in Chile.

It was a risky proposal and university authorities were initially skeptical, but Nelson's design eventually led to the twin Keck Telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, each with a 10 - meter mirror made from 36 segments.

It was a clear night on the summit of Mauna Kea at Keck Observatory on the 20th March.

Presenters and speakers at the summit include Thirty Meter Telescope Associate Project Manager Ravinder Bhatia, TMT Hawaii Community Affairs Sandra Dawson; Imiloa Astronomy Center Executive Director Ka'iu Kimura; «Imiloa Astronomy Center Navigator in Residence Kalepa Babayan; Office of Mauna Kea Management Executive Director Stephanie Nagata; Janet Babb, USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory; Dr. Saeko Hayashi, Subaru Telescope; Peter Michaud, Gemini Telescope; Dr. JD Armstrong, University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy; Dr. Rob Wright, Hawaii Space Grant Consortium,; Dr. Paul Coleman, Institute for Astronomy, Waiakea High School Science teachers Dale Olive and Tom Murphy; and Pisces (Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems Test Operations Manager) Christian Andersen.

Astronomers call Mauna Kea's summit one of the world's best places to see the stars.

The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectroscopy and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.

Season 2 of Offshore, «The Sacred Mountain,» took listeners to the summit of Mauna Kea and delved into the ongoing conflict over constructing the world's largest telescope atop Hawaii's tallest mountain.

The W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes are located on the summit of Mauna Kea, with its headquarters located in Kamuela.

The observations were made using the W. M. Keck Observatory and Gemini Observatory, both near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

These observations, from Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, confirm that numerous Kepler discoveries are indeed planets and yield mass measurements of these enigmatic worlds that vary between Earth and Neptune in size.

Since we were measuring the dimming of blue light from these distant galaxies caused by the foreground gas, the thin atmosphere at the summit of Mauna Kea allowed more of this blue light to reach the telescope and be measured by the highly sensitive detectors of the LRIS spectrograph.

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Using the most powerful optical facilities in the world, the twin, 10 - meter Keck Observatory and the 8 - meter Subaru Telescope, near the summit of Mauna Kea, Foster and her collaborators have determined enough about the character of the merger to provide a detailed model of how and when it occurred.

The $ 1.3 billion Thirty Meter Telescope is being built on the summit of Mauna Kea.

The required data can only be obtained with the largest telescopes on Earth such as the Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii equipped with the powerful High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) spectrograph to disperse the stellar light into its constituent colors and absorption features.

Contingent on that decision, the TMT International Observatory (TIO) Board of Directors, the project's new governing body, recently approved the initial phase of construction, with activities near the summit of Mauna Kea scheduled to start later this year.

Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRgetting bENchmark - objects with Doppler Spectroscopy) high - contrast imaging survey that uses adaptive optics and related technologies to target older, faint objects orbiting nearby stars, and precise measurements were made at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Subaru is an optical - infrared telescope at the 4,200 m summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

The University of Hawaii on Thursday approved a plan to sublease land at the summit of Mauna Kea for construction of the world's largest optical telescope.

At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.

When traveling from the coast of the Big Island to the summit of Mauna Kea you pass through ten different climate zones.

Other unique activities on Big Island include visiting Mauna Kea's snowy summit and the more family - friendly hike to Wailuku River State Park's Rainbow Falls.

At the summit we stop at the lookout for the views and to watch the mischievous antics of the keas (mountain parrots).