Next Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture: Keeping Track of the Sun in
Hawaii Two large solar prominences in extreme ultraviolet light
appeared on the Sun on March 18, 2003. The two large prominences
make this one of the most spectacular images that SOHO has
captured. Credit:SOHO/NASA/ESA The next Frontiers of Astronomy
Community Lecture, sponsored by the Friends of Hawaii Astronomy,
will take place at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 4, in the
auditorium of the Institute for Astronomy (2680 Woodlawn Drive
in Manoa). The lecture is free and open to the public. The
speaker will be the IfA associate director for Haleakala and
head of the Institute's Solar Kuhn, who will discuss "Keeping
Track of the Sun in Hawaii." The Solar Group operates the Mees
Solar Observatory on Haleakala, where scientists conduct
research on solar flares, magnetic fields on the Sun, and solar
oscillations. Near the end of October, Institute scientists
observed a large cluster of sunspots whose movements triggered
solar flares. These large expl