This document discusses plans for the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) to advance astronomy and science education focused on understanding our Milky Way Galaxy in the 21st century. Key points include: - ILOA plans to establish its headquarters in Hawaii near existing astronomy facilities to coordinate future lunar observatory missions and global outreach. - Upcoming ILOA missions through 2020 include precursor spacecraft launches and a potential human mission to establish an observatory at the lunar south pole. - ILOA is collaborating with space agencies and universities internationally to promote galaxy-focused education and research using lunar and Earth-based telescopes. - Advancing knowledge of our place in the Milky Way Galaxy is important

1. Steve Durst, ILOA / Space Age Publishing Company
Hawai`i and California, USA
Galaxy Forum China 2017 – Beijing
Monday 5 June, 2017

2. Earth is rotating at 1,600 kilometers per hour at the equator
Image Credit: Wikipedia

3. Image Credit: Dynamic Diagrams
…and orbiting the Sun at 108,000 kilometers per hour

4. …the Sun is one of hundreds of billions of stars orbiting the
center of the Milky Way Galaxy every 250 million years

5. Image Source: Infinity Imagined
…and everything is travelling on the
4-dimensional space time helix

6. International Lunar Observatory Association
Galaxy Astronomy from the Moon
 Galactic /
Inter-Stellar
 Earth – Moon /
Inter-Global
 Hawaiian
 Multi-Functional

7. International Lunar Observatory Association
Astronomy from the Moon and
International Human Moon Missions
 Galactic /
Inter-Stellar
 Earth – Moon /
Inter-Global
 Hawaiian
 Multi-Functional

8. ILOA 4 Moon Missions
ILO Human Service
Mission (NET 2020)
ILO-1 South Polar Mission
(NET 2018)
ILO-X Precursor Mission
(NLT 2017)
ILO – Chang'e 3 Galaxy
Imaging (2013-present)

9. Primary and Secondary ILO
Mission Objectives:
First Light Galaxy Imaging
Initial landing site observation, local surveillance
Earth observations: albedo, geocorona, etc.
Search for Earth-like planets
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Analyze interstellar molecules to determine origin of Solar
System
VLF observation
Observe signs of life on Mars, Europa, Titan, etc.
Search for dangerous NEOs
Sun-Earth observations, solar storm warnings
More

10. ILO-1: Observation & Communication
From the Lunar South Pole
Astronomy from the Moon

11. Lunar South Pole – Kaguya

12. ILO-X: Precursor Mission
Galaxy Center (6-min exposure)
by ILO-X Phase 2 Hardware
ME to conduct spacecraft
development and flight tests at SLC-
36, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
ME-1 Scheduled to launch 2017

13. ILOA Chang’e-3 Collaboration
Above: First image from LUT - Draco
“Dragon” Constellation

14. Steve Durst meeting with Ma Xingrui of CNSA, 8 August 2013

15. ILOA Galaxy Imaging Program with LUT
Spiral Galaxy M101
*This observation was made at the very edge of the telescope's capabilities. The target
object, M101, was barely within the available sky coverage of LUT and therefore had to be
captured at the earliest possible point in the Lunar day causing noticeable stray light and
power supply stability issues.

17. India Astronomy from the Moon
ISRO Chairman Dr A S Kiran Kumar during the Dr APJ
Abdul Kalam Memorial lecture at IIT Madras 14
October 2016: “As a follow-on mission to Astrosat,
discussions are in progress with an international body
regarding setting up of a telescope on the Moon,”
Chandrayaan-2

18. ILOA and India
L-R: Sreekumar of Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Ravi Subrahmanyan of Raman Research
Institute, Professor UR Rao former ISRO Chairman, Steve Durst of ILOA discussing ILO-1
launch considerations and astronomy from the Moon, as well as India participation in and support
for the ILO-1 Mission at ISRO HQ in Bangaluru India on 1 September 2016

19. NAOJ Astronomy
Subaru Telescope, ISS Fly Over; Mauna Kea, HI, USA ALMA, NAOJ Chile Observatory; Chajnantor, Atacama, Chile
(Future) Thirty Meter Telescope, Maunakea, HI, USA
NAOJ Nobeyama Radio
Observatory;
45m Diameter, millimeter
wave; Minamimaki,
Nagano, Japan
Showa Station & Dome F
Antarctic Astronomy Efforts

20. ILOA and Southeast Asia

21. ILO Human Service Mission
Evolvable Lunar Architecture 2015
Early Lunar
Access1992

22. The Moon, Mars, and a Multi World Species
Mars, Phobos, Deimos
Moon South Pole
SpaceX – Dragon / Interplanetary
Transport System
China CE5
ESA Moon Village
India Chandrayaan-2 Mission

23. Women Astronomers on the Moon
Mauna Kea: A Century Ahead
Final Technical and Cultural Training on Mauna Kea for Women Astronomers
Destined for Moon South Pole Astronomy and Science Education with Aloha

25. Results – 574 Responses
Almost 90% Agree

26. General Education – for primary, secondary higher, and highest
education: Knowledge, understanding of humanity’s place in the
Universe – our Milky Way Galaxy occupies a mid-position domain
between Solar System finiteness and Cosmos infinity
Higher Education: Astrophysics / Astronomy – Galaxy studies
internationally are of increasing interest and value; study of our
local stellar neighborhood for familiarity; center / central 10
parsecs with supermassive black hole is most dynamic region of
Milky Way
History of Human Civilization / Archaeoastronomy
NASA, JAXA, ISRO CNSA, RSA, CSA, KARI, ESA, SEASA, World
Space Agencies – 21st Century Program and Policy Development
Advance through Galaxy understanding
Galacticity – may be as important for the 21st Century, as is
Relativity to 20th
, and Electricity to the 19th
Why Galaxy Education, Consciousness &
Awareness Are Important for the 21st Century:

27. EarthRise Photo : 1968 / Apollo 8 *** 20th
Century
ILO Imaging Galaxy Center *** 21st
Century

29. A Galaxy Map for Every Class

30. 5/22/12

31. Locations:
California, USA
Hawaii, USA
Kansas, USA
Canada (Vancouver, Toronto)
China (Beijing, Shanghai)
India (Bangalore)
Europe (Strasbourg, Prague, Noordwijk)
Japan (Tokyo)
New York, USA
Africa (Cape Town)
Southeast Asia( )
South America ( )
Venues & Partners:
Silicon Valley, The Tech Museum
CFHT, Imiloa, Onizuka,
Cosmosphere, Ad Astra Kansas
UBC, SFU, MacMillan SC, CSA, BCIT
NAOC, CNSA, CSA, BJP, SHAO,
JNP, BASE, ISRO, IIA
ISU, UdS, CTU, Stefanik Observatory
NAOJ, JAXA, Miraikan,
SHS, Grand Central, Hayden Planetarium
SAAO, ASSA, IAU-OAD
NUS, SCS, ANGKASA, ITB, NARIT
UC, ESO, ALMA, LPN, LNA, SpaceMETA
Mission: Advance 21st Century Education worldwide to
provide greater global awareness, capabilities and action in
Galaxy science, exploration and enterprise.
Galaxy Forum Architecture
Singapore, Bandung,
Bangkok, Jakarta, KL
Santiago, Rio
de Janeiro

32. Galaxy Forum 21st
Century Education

33. Barbara Morgan
1st Teacher in Space

34. Galaxy Garden / Jon Lomberg
Kona, Hawai`i Island

35. Andrea Ghez
UCLA Galactic Center Group
Keck Observatory
Stellar Orbits in the Central Arcsec
Adaptive Optics
Animations created by Prof. Andrea Ghez and team at UCLA; data sets from W. M. Keck Telescopes at Mauna Kea Hawaii.

36. International Lunar Observatory Association
 ILOA to be Based in Hawai`i
 Center of Pacific Hemisphere
 Bi-directional Launch Capability
 Equatorial / Southern Proximity
 Maintain Hawai`i Preeminence in
Astrophysics for Next 100 Years

37. ILOA Headquarters Development
• Kamuela / Waimea site: Near Keck & CFHT HQs
• Direct Line of Site / Easy access to Mauna Kea
Observatories -- Center of Astronomy in Northern
Hemisphere
• 2500 sq. ft. complex on 1 acre of land

38. Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawai`i
• 4206 meter / 13,796 feet elevation – tallest mountain in Pacific Ocean
• Global center of Earth-based astronomy
• 14 nations represented – Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Japan,
The Netherlands, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Hawaii / USA, India, China

39. ALOHA!
For more information about the ILO / ILOA, contact:
65-1230 Mamalahoa Highway, D-20
Kamuela, HI 96743
Phone 808-885-3474
Fax 808-885-3475
Email info@iloa.org
Web http://www.iloa.org
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