Visits

October 2002, University of Hawaii at Hilo: Jarrett Kodani and Richard Crowe are observing with the Astronomical AO Demonstrator on the Big Island, perhaps until Fall of 2003. Richard is a professor at UH Hilo, and is principal investigator for the New Opportunities through Minority Initiatives in Space Science (NOMISS), a program to enhance astronomy education at the college and pre-college level and encourage the involvement of Native Hawaiian students in science, technology, and research. The Demonstrator has been set up on a 0.4 meter reflector near the visitor's center at Hale Pohaku, the mid-level facility for astronomers observing on Mauna Kea, where Jarrett and Richard are observing star clusters.

Observing on Mauna Kea:
Left to right are Richard Crowe, Jarrett Kodani, and Hawaii Community College student Sarah Brown. They are observing globular clusters with the tip-tilt camera and the 0.4 meter telescope at the visitor's center at the mid-level facility on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

September 2002, Maui Community College: The Astronomical AO Demonstrator visited for a week with Mark Hoffman and Jarrett Kodani acting as "tour guides". It was used for classroom demonstrators in Mark's Principles of Technology class in the electrical engineering department. Various daytime experiments were carried out by the class of about a dozen students. These centered on the principles of operation of the tip-tilt camera. It was our first vist of the Demonstrator to a classroom environment, and it proved to be a success. Lisa Hunter remarked that "the class got very involved in trying laser pointers, pocket light, a pin hole, etc. Mark just let them try things; it was great to watch the group get so engaged."

Publications / Posters / Talks

Kodani, J.S.L., Cook, R.L., Steinbring, E., Creason, G., Lemaux, B., 2002, A Web-Based Instructional Series for an Astronomical Adaptive Optics Demonstrator, Poster, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Conference, Anaheim CA, 26-29 September 2002

Kodani, J.S.L., 2002, A Web-Based Instructional Series for an Astronomical Adaptive Optics Demonstrator, Talk, 9 August 2002, CfAO Summer School on Adaptive Optics Student Symposium, Santa Cruz CA, 3-9 August 2002

Steinbring, E., 2001, Hands-On Teaching Demonstrators for Vision and Astronomy, Poster, CfAO Fall Retreat, Monterey CA, 8-10 December 2001

Lizaola, M., Steinbring, E., Cook, R.L., 2001, The Center for Adaptive Optics Astronomical Adaptive Optics Demonstrator, Poster, SACNAS Conference, Pheonix AZ, 27-30 September 2001

Lizaola, M., 2001, Developing an Astronomical Adaptive Optics Demonstration, Talk, ACCESS Program Research Institute Student Symposium, Santa Cruz CA, 3 August 2001

Steinbring, E., 2001, Astronomy with Adaptive Optics, Talk and Demonstration, 3 July 2001, California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS), Santa Cruz CA, 25 June - 20 July 2001

Hinkley, S., 2001, Bringing AO to the Masses: An Astronomical Tip-Tilt System for Public Demonstrations and Teaching, Poster, CfAO Integrating Research and Education Conference, Kona HI, 18-23 April 2001

Cook, R.L., Kodani, J.S.L., Steinbring, E., Lizaola, M., Creason, G., Lemaux, B., 2001-2002, CfAO Adaptive Optics Demonstrators, Web-Based Instructional Series, CfAO webpages.

Robb, R.M., Steinbring, E., Delaney, P.A., 2000, An Adaptive Optics Device for Teaching Astronomy, JRASC, 94, 250, Poster, Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) Conference, Vancouver BC, 25-29 May 2000 (This publication predates the project, but it is based on the same Santa Barbara Instrument Group tip-tilt camera.)