04-13-2015, 09:41 PM
From Brian Kuwada;
" So I thought it might be useful to post a picture of the telescope that George Tupman, the expedition's leader, used to observe the transit because...well...it's little. It was set up with all of their other equipment in what was essentially a backyard. There were also two small supplemental observation stations, one in Waimea, Kaua'i, and one in Kailua, Kona.
What is more interesting to me than Kalakaua's words is how Tupman referred to Kalakaua and the other members of the royal family as "savages" and "intolerable nuisances" for wanting to have the telescope opened up to the public to look through, with Kalakaua even offering to send down the Royal Hawaiian Band to play. Check the article (written by an astronomer) from the Hawaiian Journal of History to see for yourself"
HERE'sthe article (42page pdf by Michael Chauvin)
" So I thought it might be useful to post a picture of the telescope that George Tupman, the expedition's leader, used to observe the transit because...well...it's little. It was set up with all of their other equipment in what was essentially a backyard. There were also two small supplemental observation stations, one in Waimea, Kaua'i, and one in Kailua, Kona.
What is more interesting to me than Kalakaua's words is how Tupman referred to Kalakaua and the other members of the royal family as "savages" and "intolerable nuisances" for wanting to have the telescope opened up to the public to look through, with Kalakaua even offering to send down the Royal Hawaiian Band to play. Check the article (written by an astronomer) from the Hawaiian Journal of History to see for yourself"
HERE'sthe article (42page pdf by Michael Chauvin)