‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch Accepts Two First-Quarter Moon Phases

Summary: ‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch accepts two first-quarter moon phases, Monday the 1st through Thursday the 4th, Saturday the 27th through Wednesday the 31st.

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Hawaiian lunar agriculture discourages planting food crops during Hoaka the first crescent moon phase: Kaʻiwakīloumoku, via Facebook Nov. 15, 2020

‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch accepts two first-quarter moon phases, Monday the 1st through Thursday the 4th, from first-quarter Tuesday through Sunday, June 25-30, and Saturday the 27th through Wednesday the 31st.

‘Imiloa, through University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii County (from Hawaiian ‘imi loa, “to search far”; hilo, “thread”; ha wai ‘i, “breath life-force supreme”) bears Hawaiian names. It configures English and Hawaiian equivalents for its months and its sky charts even as it calls moon phases by English-language new, first, full, last categories. Modern Hawaiian culture designates as mahina hou (from Hawaiian mahina hou, “moon fresh/new/recent”) the new moon that dominates from Friday, July 5 through Friday, July 12.

Hilo weather expects mixed cloudy, sunny skies July 5-6, 8-12 and cloudy, rainy skies Sunday, July 7, the latter perhaps entailing cloud-covered evening and night skies.

Modern Hawaiian culture furnishes as mahina hapalua mua the first-quarter June-carryover lunar phase July 1-4 and the first-quarter July-only lunar phase Saturday through Saturday, July 13-20.

Mahina hapalua mua (from Hawaiian mahina hapa lua mua, “moon half double first”) garners four days of mixed cloudy and sunny skies that perhaps go nightward. It heralds three days of mixed cloudy, sunny skies; one sunny-skies day; three days of mixed cloudy, sunny skies; and one day of cloudy, rainy skies. Tuesday, July 16, as the only cloud- and rain-free day in the entire month, perhaps inspires cloud- and rain-free evenings and nights, for the best moon-gazing.

‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch juggles 31 days into one new moon that journeys between two first-quarter moon phases; one full moon; and one last-quarter moon.

Modern Hawaiian culture knows as mahina piha and mahina poepoe (from Hawaiian mahina piha, “moon full”; mahina poepoe, “moon round”) the full moon of July 21-26.

Sunday the 21st, Monday the 22nd, Tuesday the 23rd through Thursday the 25th, Friday the 26th respectively log during daytime hours cloudy-rainy-sunny, cloudy-sunny, cloudy-rainy, cloudy-sunny skies. Might that mean likewise 8:00 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian (4:00 Chamorro, 7:00 Samoa, 10:00 Alaska, 11:00 Pacific, midnight Mountain, 1:00 next-day Central, 2:00 Eastern, 2:00 Atlantic) Time onward? Evening and night skies niching cloudy-rainy skies perhaps nudges evening and night hours Tuesday through Thursday, July 23-25 into not so nice for noticing full-moon phases.

‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch perhaps offers 31 24-hour periods one occurrence, during the second of two first-quarter moon phases, one cloudless sunlight, one cloudless moonlight.

Modern Hawaiian culture presents the last-quarter moon Saturday through Wednesday, July 27-31 as mahina hapalua hope (from Hawaiian mahina hapa lua hope, “moon half double last”).

Saturday the 27th, Sunday the 28th through Tuesday the 30th, Wednesday the 31st respectively queue cloudy-sunny, cloudy-rainy-sunny, cloudy-sunny skies perhaps never quitting evening and night skies. The July last-quarter moon phase runs into the first three days of the next-month last-quarter moon, from Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 1-3, respectively cloudy-rainy-sunny-, cloudy-sunny-, cloudy-rainy-skied. Evening and night skies safeguard such other moonlight-supplementing sources as the light-banded bulge in the Milky Way’s galactic center, two star lines and two star systems.

‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch teams one cloudless night, during the second of two first-quarter moon phases, during galaxy-, planet-, star-lit evenings and nights, July 1-31.

Hawaiian astronomy knows the new moon and Hoaka first crescent moon phases as Hilo and Hoaka, respectively: Kaʻiwakīloumoku, via Facebook Nov. 15, 2020

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Hawaiian lunar agriculture discourages planting food crops during Hoaka the first crescent moon phase: Kaʻiwakīloumoku, via Facebook Nov. 15, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/KaiwakiloumokuCenter/photos/pb.100064421064468.-2207520000/142046704316742/; via Facebook Nov. 15, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=142046704316742&set=a.102624678258945

Hawaiian astronomy knows the new moon and Hoaka first crescent moon phases as Hilo and Hoaka, respectively: Kaʻiwakīloumoku, via Facebook Nov. 15, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/KaiwakiloumokuCenter/posts/142046697650076/; via Facebook Nov. 15, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=142046697650076&set=a.102624678258945; via Facebook Nov. 15, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/KaiwakiloumokuCenter/photos/pb.100064421064468.-2207520000/142046697650076/

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