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...dscape, land use, and access; changes in the environment; efforts at conservation of the mountain landscape; and the events leading to development of observatories on Mauna Kea—into one manuscript. Such a manuscript will provide readers with access to the diverse, and at times, difficult to locate, historical narratives that document the cultural landscape, and history of ...

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... is only a reflection thereof. The image was created -- some think -- from the triangulation of the satellites already in space with the ground-based Observatories all over the world....

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...resort (site of APEC Leaders Summit) MAUI 15 Wailuku 16 Haleakalā (solar observatories) 17 Maui High Performance Computing Center HAWAI‘I ISLAND 18 ... ...navigators home. Today, the dormant volcano peak is home to 13 scientifc observatories with participation from 12 countries. At 3,055 meters (10,02... ...in the mountain’s astronomy district. The isolated ledge below existing observatories was chosen for its exceptional observing conditions and its... ...awing shows the as-yet-unbuilt telescope (top center) amid existing solar observatories after a snowfall on Haleakalā. PHOTO: COURTESY OF C. ATST/NS... ...MT colloquium in Beijing came six months after the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences signed on as an internat... ...levation of 2,800 meters to the Astronomy Precinct at 4,200 meters. The observatories are not built on the actual summit of Mauna Kea, which is c... ...astronomy research. Administrative and support functions for many of the observatories take place in Hilo, 55 km away. The observatory buildings ... ... planet and the technical and scientifc expertise to manage world-class observatories, the University of Hawai‘i has become a global leader in Mo...

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...he sunrise watching the setting of this strange new star. And in a hundred observatories there had been suppressed excitement, rising almost to shouti... ...t is brighter!” cried the people clustering in the streets. But in the dim observatories the watchers held their breath and peered at one another. “IT...

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...Resartus and Hegel’s Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laborato- ries and Observatories with their results, in his single head,—is but a Pair of Spec...

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...ue sky, and far away to the north glittered two biplanes on the way to the observatories on Everest, two hundred miles distant over the precipices to ...

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...he sunrise watching the setting of this strange new star. And in a hundred observatories there had been suppressed excitement, rising almost to shouti... ...t is brighter!” cried the people clustering in the streets. But in the dim observatories the watchers held their breath and peered at one another. “It...

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... lonely places, in jungles and mountains, in snows and fires, in the still observatories and the silent laboratories, in those secret and dangerous pl...

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...— Tycho, suppose, or, in a later age, Cassini and Horrox, and Bradley, had observatories: one man, suppose, observed the stars for all Christendom; an... ...- tions, all use them in their speculations. New and brilliantly appointed observatories are rising in every latitude, or risen; and none, by the way,... ...ising in every latitude, or risen; and none, by the way, of these new-born observatories, is more interesting from the circumstances of its position, ...

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...ue C´ eleste and Hegel’s Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head,—is but a Pair of Sp...