Oh SOL Oh Me OH!....................
Cool
Probably how Van Gogh saw it.
Freegards
Awesome.
Thanks.
And just why is this telescope built using our tax money named for a senator from Hawaii? Or did Daniel K. Inouye put up a big share of the finanving?
One of my pet peeves, sorry.
Solar telescopes are something else. Kitt Peak solar observatory (1958), in Arizona, is a great example.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kitt-Peak-National-Observatory
I did some work for NASA/University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy up there, and also for Faulkes Telescope North, a part of Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN).
I had a chance to bid the electrical on that project but passed for some reason...
Cool!
Frodo, take off that ring!!!
Having been employed at the Kecks in a neighbor island.
I have a thought or two.
Astronomers really don’t have a clue what they are looking at, but they have papers to write, so they write.
10 kM per pixel is like looking at a sewage retention pond to discern whose shit is there and where.
Not likely.
Astronomy is a great science, but it is all history!
I’m more interested in the future, for my kids, grandkids
and extended family.
It’s pretty amazing technology.
That looks like I feel the next morning after eating too many Habaneros
Upgrade. Looks like Van Gogh on acid.
A big burning ball of hydrogen.
That looks like the sun for ever before.
The world's largest solar telescope has gained a powerful new "eye" that promises deeper views into the workings of our sun than ever before, scientists announced on Thursday (April 24).
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which eyes the sun from its perch atop a mountain on the Hawaiian island of Maui, has been sending home stunningly detailed views of the surface of our star. The observatory, which is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, is designed to scrutinize the solar atmosphere and the sun's magnetic field for tiny features that might reveal answers to some of the fundamental solar mysteries.
The telescope's already-sharp vision has now been boosted significantly thanks to a new instrument designed to maximize the information gleaned from the sun's light, scientists said on Thursday.
Seems like the specific info is typically not hard to find because "first light" is a telescope's date-of-birth sort of thing.
In any case, the announcement went out on 4/24.
For the meeting of many data points, I was reminded of verse 17 in Psalm 72, which as you know is the source text for the ancient tradition about the name Messianic name "Yinon":
16. May there be abundance of grain in the land, may it wave on the tops of the mountains; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may the men of the city flourish like grass of the earth:
17. May his name endure for ever; may his name be continued as long as the sun; may men be blessed in him; may all nations call him happy:
Together with the name of the mountain, and the popularity of watching the Sun rise from there:
Early Hawaiians applied the name Haleakalā ("house of the sun") to the general mountain. Haleakalā is also the name of a peak on the southwestern edge of Kaupō Gap. In Hawaiian folklore, the depression (crater) at the summit of Haleakalā was home to the grandmother of the demigod Māui. According to the legend, Māui's grandmother helped him capture the sun and force it to slow its journey across the sky in order to lengthen the day.
may his name be continued as long as the sun
For those not aware, the peculiarity in the verse is that the "Yinon" (be continued) is written as ינין, but is read (and discussed) as Yinon [יִנּוֹן].
לִפְנֵי־שֶׁמֶשׁ יִנּוֹן [ינין] שְׁמוֹ is lifnei* shemesh Yinon shmo, "before the Sun, Yinon is his name."
*לִפְנֵי prep. in the presence of, before. [Lit.: ‘at the face of’, formed from pref. לְ◌ and c. st. of פָּנִים (= face, presence). cp. Akka. lappān (= before), which is the exact equivalent of לִפְנֵי. cp. also בִּפְנֵי, מִפְּנֵי, מִלִּפְנֵי.]
94. SEVEN THINGS CREATED BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLDThis next article (about the letter nun and the "Yinon" verse) is timely (all eyes on Rome today and this past week) because it uses The Messiah at the Gates of Rome for its storyline backdrop:Seven things were created before the creation of the world. They are: the Torah, Repentance, Paradise, Gehenna, the Throne of Glory, the heavenly Temple, and the name of the Messiah. The Messiah's name was engraved on a precious stone on the altar of the heavenly Temple, as it is said. His name existed before the sun (Ps 72:17)...
LINK (pg. 74)
Fish --A story is told in the Talmud:1 Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi meets Elijah the Prophet and asks, “When will Moshiach come?”
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Nun also means “kingship.” There is a verse in Psalms regarding Moshiach that states:16 “May his name (Yinon) endure forever, as long as the sun.” According to Rashi, Yinon refers to kingship. If we break the word “Yinon” into two—yud and nun—nun means kingship, and putting a yud before a word denotes continuity.17 Therefore, the name Yinon implies that the kingship of Moshiach will endure forever.
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Then he will be Yinon (yud), which means fish that multiply rapidly and endure. Under Moshiach’s reign, the world will be fruitful and multiply.
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https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137086/jewish/Nun.htm
A related [to Maui] ancient line-of-thought regarding the arrival of the Messiah is that
“Three things come unexpectedly to a person: Moshiach, a found object, and a scorpion.” – (Sanhedrin 97a)Maui --The Talmud (Sanhedrin) states: “Three things come unexpectedly: Moshiach, a ‘find’ (metzia), and a scorpion,” i.e., the Redemption will be as much of a surprise as finding a “metzia” or being stung by a scorpion...https://lawofmessiah.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/moshiach-a-find-and-a-scorpion/
In Hawaii, Scorpius is known as the demigod Maui's Fishhook.
"In either hemisphere, the best time to view the constellation is July and August, and it is at its highest point around 9 pm in mid-July, according to EarthSky."
https://www.space.com/16947-scorpius-constellation.html
(Seems like the specific info is typically not hard to find because "first light" is a telescope's date-of-birth sort of thing.)