Astronomy keeps your head in the clouds

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FIRST PHOTO: Bill Giebink (right), a staff member with the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, demonstrates the effects of liquid nitrogen as Dawud Moragne, 11, of Haiku looks on Friday evening during the institute's second annual Maikalani Open House in Pukalani.

SECOND PHOTO: Tony Rodrigues of Haleakala Amateur Astronomers peeks through a Lightbridge 12-inch telescope Friday during the open house. Rodrigues said the telescope was open to members of the public at the event, and he was expecting to sight Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Mars, the moon and star clusters - if the high clouds would clear away.

THIRD PHOTO: Dave Harrington of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (from left) has Roxana and Dan Gerstenberger of Kula and Baldwin High School science teacher Graham DeVey wear sunglasses with polarizing lenses during a demonstration about polarized light on Friday night.