Moons, Planets, Stars Are at ‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch Early Morning

Summary: Moons, planets, stars as constellations, star clusters, star lines arranged as navigational star families are at ‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch early morning.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

'Imiloa Astronomy Center's Sky Watch for July 2024 features such astronomical events as the month's two prominent star families, Kaiwikuamoʻo The Backbone and Mānaiakalani The Fish Hook of Maui, and the dates of July's four primary lunar phases: Imiloa Astronomy Center, via Facebook July 3, 2024

Five solar-system moons, three solar-system planets, abundant Milky Way stars as constellations, as star clusters, star lines as ancient Hawaiian navigational star families are at ‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch early morning.

University of Hawaii-Hilo ‘Imiloa Sky Watch (from Hawaiian ‘imi loa, “to search far”; ha wai ‘i, “breath life-force supreme”; hilo, “thread”) bares lunar, solar, stellar behaviors. Early morning during July 2024 configures five moons, of which our Moon counts as one and Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Io count as four chief Jovian moons. Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Io (from Greek κᾰ́λλος, “beautiful”; Εὐρώπη, “broad-eye/wide-face”; Γᾰνῠμήδης, “glad-plans”; Ῑ̓ώ, “lo!”) demand their discerning by deploying a pair of binoculars or by telescope.

Four Jovian (from Latin iovis, “day[‘s]/sky[‘s]”) moons embellish the early-morning eastern sky that ensconces their host planet, Jupiter (from Latin Iuppiter, “day-/sky-father”), in early-morning planetary trio.

Jupiter, as Kaawela (from Hawaiian ka’āwela, “Jupiter”), figures eastwardly with red-regolith (from Greek ῥῆγος λίθος, “blanket/rug stone”) planet Hokuula (Mars, from Hawaiian hōkū ula, “star red”).

The asterism Pleiades (from Greek Πλειάδες, from πλέω, “to sail”?), as the star cluster Makalii (from Hawaiian maka lii, “eye small”), groups eastwardly with both planets. Early-morning, southern skies house the gas giant Saturn, as the Hawaiian planet Makulu (from Hawaiian ma kulu, “liquid/water dripping”) near navigational star family, star line Kalupeakawelo. The Kite of Kawelo (from Hawaiian ka lupe a Kawelo, “the kite of Kawelo [from ka welo, “the family trait”]”) includes the Great Square of Pegasus.

‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch journeys moons, planets, stars, different from those in evening and night skies, in the early morning through eastern and southern skies.

Ancient Hawaiians knew four-star Great Square of Pegasus (from Greek Πήγασος, from πηγή, “fountain/spring/spring-fed fountain”?) as four-star Kite of Kawelo, the latter demigod ancestor of Kauaians.

Top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right respectively lodge Pegasus stars Scheat, Markab, Alpheratz and Algenib as Kawelo stars Manokalanipo, Kakuhihewa, Pi’ilani and Keawe. Scheat, Markab, Alpheratz and Algenib (from Arabic السَاعِد, “the forearm”; مَرْكَب, “boat/saddle”; سُرَّةُ الْفَرَس, “navel horse[‘s]”; الجَانِب, “the side”) muster different meanings in their Hawaiian counterparts. Manō ka lani pō, “shark the heavenly night[‘s]”; kakuhi hewa, “chart mistakenly”; pi’i lani, “climb heaven[ward]; ke awe, “the bearer” respectively nurture Manōkalanipō, Kākuhihewa, Piilani, Keawe.

‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch offers from moons, planets, stars in the early morning Jupiter and Mars near the seven-sisters Pleiades and Saturn near Kawelo’s kite.

Navigational star family and star line Kite of Kawelo possesses two other stars positioned north and four other stars positioned south, of its quartet near Saturn.

Northerly kite strings from Manokalanipo and Kakuhihewa respectively quest Iwakelii and Kamoi (Cassiopeia, from Hawaiian iwa ali’i, “frigatebird [Fregata minor] chief”; Cepheus, ka mō’i, “the king”). The kite string from Piilani reaches southerly Piikea, southeasterly Kalanikauleleaiwi (“the chief’s star’s bones”), southwesterly Kaikilani (pi’i kea, “becoming daylight”; ka iki lani, “the little chief[tess]”). The southerly kite string from Keawe stops at Kukaniloko (from Hawaiian kū kani loko, “to anchor sound within”), between the southern horizon and the southwestern horizon.

‘Imiloa July 2024 Sky Watch teams moons, planets, stars in the early morning and a constellation, a planet and two star systems in the evening sky.

Sky charts of Hawai'i's skies are issued monthly by the Big Island's 'Imiloa Astronomy Center as well as by O'ahu-based Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum's J. (Jhamandas) Watumull Planetarium: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, via Facebook June 29, 2024

Acknowledgment

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

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'Imiloa Astronomy Center's Sky Watch for July 2024 features such astronomical events as the month's two prominent star families, Kaiwikuamoʻo The Backbone and Mānaiakalani The Fish Hook of Maui, and the dates of July's four primary lunar phases: Imiloa Astronomy Center, via Facebook July 3, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/imiloaastronomycenter/posts/pfbid0KZSt9w5ZqLtWMvZdmspvwLMcMU8ShpsgEX3bYEUmkS2C5hqYJ1CDsBcW9szpefmMl; via Facebook July 3, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/imiloaastronomycenter/posts/872829154864031/

Sky charts of Hawai'i's skies are issued monthly by the Big Island's 'Imiloa Astronomy Center as well as by O'ahu-based Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum's J. (Jhamandas) Watumull Planetarium: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, via Facebook June 29, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/BishopMuseum/posts/pfbid0dq1A8DWzsn6UDHo9RqMWrg1yukPDLDjfJqXyxuw23wXZX53c176vW5U2HZWSk3qsl

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