Local information

The Joint Astronomy Centre

• Overhead view of the JAC headquarters at University Park
• Weather resources - UKIRT/JCMT conditions, Satellite pictures, forecasts, etc.
• Visit the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy  to take an aerial tour of the summit of Mauna Kea

Check out the following links for some information about the Big Island of Hawaii;

• Go Hawaii's Big Island homepage
• A brief background to the Big Island
• Take a Virtual Field Trip Around the Big Island
• Visit This Week Hawaii magazine homepage
• Hawaii Tribune Herald - local newspaper
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
• Visit Ann Cecil's Gallery for some great photographs of the Big Island

• Follow the links to the Big Island for a brief tour of Hilo town from the Hawaii State Vacation Planner
• Hilo Bay from the air

• Information about downtown Hilo 

The Hawaii Web homepage.

Last modified: 4 April 2003 author: ILM