Deep Impact Hawaii

Deep Impact Hawaii Information

Hilo Program Flyer • UHH Map
Maui Program Flyer • MCC Map

Star Chart
Instructions for Finding Tempel 1

JPL Deep Impact Site
NASA Deep Impact Mission Site
Deep Impact Amateur Observer Site

Honolulu Advertiser 6/11/05
Honolulu Star Bulletin 6/12/05
Maui News 6/11/05
Honolulu Advertiser 6/27/05
Maui News 7/2/2005
Honolulu Advertiser 7/3/2005
Honolulu Star Bulletin 7/4/2005
Honolulu Advertiser 7/4/2005
Maui News 7/4/2005
Hawaii Tribune-Herald 7/4/2005
Honolulu Advertiser 7/5/2005
Maui News 7/5/2005

Faulkes Telescope on Haleakala

Celestron 11"OTA on Mauna Kea

Mauina Kea Observatories

Hawaii will have a front row seat on Sunday July 3rd around 7:52 pm, during Deep Impact! No, its not the Hollywood movie, but the results of a NASA Mission to learn more about the interior of a comet by placing a copper impactor into its path may yield a better understanding of the pristine material inside those dirty snowballs, and perhaps the formation of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
Complementing NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft, Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, many earth-bound observatories will be watching the event, including all of the telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii. An international collaboration of educators and students from the United Kingdom, Iceland and Hawaii will be collecting data with the Faulkes Telescope on the summit of Haleakala, Maui. And the general public may participate in several events that will be held around the state.
Comet Tempel 1 is currently visible through binoculars or telescopes. Although no one really knows for certain what will happen at the moment of impact and afterward, scientists believe a plume of material will be expelled from the comet. Sunlight reflected off the comet and plume may provide an opportunity for the public to see it with their naked eye as a faint new "star" in the region of the star Spica and the planet Jupiter.