Space station to pass over isles

The International Space Station will make a spectacular appearance over Honolulu on Monday evening if the weather cooperates.

The space station will rise in the southwest about 6:59 p.m. and head to the right, passing in front of Mars about a minute later. It will reach its highest point in the sky, under the bright star Vega, between 7:02 and 7:03 p.m.

It will blink out in the northeast just before 7:06 p.m. as it enters the Earth’s shadow.

The space station, currently 230 miles up and traveling at 17,500 mph, is visible just after sunset and just before dawn when it is illuminated by the sun against a darker sky.

There are six people aboard the station: Navy Capt. Sunita Williams, mission commander; and flight engineers Kevin Ford, Yuri Malenchenko, Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Akihiko Hoshide.

Hotel to host health conference

More than 500 health professionals will converge on Honolulu Monday for the fifth Pacific Global Health Conference.

The conference runs through Wednesday at the Ala Moana Hotel.

The meeting is being held at "a pivotal time in which the University of Hawaii is building stronger public health collaborations through the establishment of our School of Global and Community Health," said Jay Maddock, director of the University of Hawaii’s Office of Public Health Studies.

"We need to continue working collectively to address urgent health problems, including obesity, poor nutrition and the prevention of chronic and infectious diseases not only in Hawaii and across the Pacific Rim, but globally as well."