Home on the Web

By Richard Borreca
Star-Bulletin

Friday, March 29, 1996

Isle sightseeing from your desktop

As much as you shivered this week in Hawaii, there was one spot on the islands that was colder: the frozen top of Mauna Kea, where a video camera captures picture after picture of the snowy peak.

The camera is part of the Gemini 8 Meter Telescope Project, recording the daily construction of the new scope. Sprint over to http://www.gemini.edu/gallery/construction/daily_pic.html for a view of the chilly top of Hawaii.

That's not the only camera providing live pictures of the state to viewers around the world.

On Maui, for instance, you can peek into Iao Valley through http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/weather/iao.html, a site put up by Maui Community College professor and weathercaster Glenn James.

"I get e-mail from people all over the world, either people coming to Hawaii (or) those wanting to relive their trips," he said.

Other cameras up on Maui let you peek at Kihei, http://www.synchromic.com/cam.html or at the surf at Spreckelsville at http://maui.net/~bob/windcam.html.

If you are interested in the surf and are tired of looking at Oahu's Sunset beach camera at http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/satlab/sunset.html you can drive over to Waimea Bay for another collection of pictures taken from the St. Peter and Paul Mission.

The cameras are up in the church tower and the Web site is http://cil-www.oce.orst.edu:8080/hawaii.html.


"Home on the Web" is a weekly Friday feature of the Star-Bulletin.
Richard Borreca can be reached by e-mail at rborreca@pixi.com


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