Mars and Jupiter Conjunction Alights ‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch

Summary: Mars and Jupiter conjunction alights 'Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch during the early morning hours Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024.

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A conjunction of Mars and Jupiter occurs Wednesday, Aug. 14, from the perspective of Earth-based observers; image of sky with Mars-Jupiter conjunction Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, by Adeel Shafiq from Pakistan: EarthSky, via Facebook Aug. 16, 2024

Mars and Jupiter conjunction alights 'Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch during the early morning hours Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, when a constellation, a star line and another planet alight the pre-dawn skies.

Planetary conjunction brings two, two-plus planets, apart from one another but betraying the same ecliptic longitude or the same right ascension, into an apparent close approach. Ecliptic longitude concerns, in its March-equinox (from Latin aequus nox, “equal night [length to day length]”) configuration, the imaginary line communicating our Sun’s apparent annual sky-crossing. Right ascension defers to the east- or west-distance longitudinal equivalent on the Earthly surface as that longitudinal counterpart displays itself on the abstract, conceptualized celestial sphere.

That conjunction usually entails an apparent distance of 0.5 to 9 degrees, with the former the average width of the Full-Moon disk, even as less exists.

A great conjunction features the planets Jupiter and Saturn, whose great planetary conjunction Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, featured the two planets less than 0.1 degrees apart.

Early-morning hours guard the planet Saturn (Hawaiianized as Makulu) in pre-dawn skies over the Komohana (from Hawaiian komo, “west [where the sun] enters [the sea]”) horizon. The Hikina (from Hawaiian hikina, “east”) horizon house the non-conjoined planets Jupiter (Hawaiianized as Kaʻāwela) and Mars (Hawaiianized as Hōkūʻula, from Hawaiian hōkū ula, “star red”). It includes the constellation Orion (Hawaiianized as Kaheiheionākeiki, from Hawaiian ka hei-hei o nā keiki, “the cat’s cradle [of the child]”) and the star line Kekaomakalii.

‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch joins Saturn, not in planetary conjunction with Mars and Jupiter conjunction, and Kekaomakalii, not there with evening-night Kaiwikuamoo and Manaiakalani lines.

‘Imiloa Astronomy Center, Hilo, Hawaii County, Hawaii state (from Hawaiian ‘imi loa, “to search far”; ha wai ‘i, “breath life-force supreme”) knows two August-evening, August-night lines.

Post-sunset skies lodge Kaiwaikuamoo and Manaiakalani (The Backbone, from Hawaiian ka iwi kua moo, “the bone back lizard[‘s]”; māna ia ka lani, “hook fish the chief[‘s]”). Pre-dawn skies maintain as the evening-night duo’s counterpart, early-morning navigational star family and star line Kekaomakalii (from Hawaiian ke kā o Makali’i, “the canoe-bailer of Makalii”). That August early-morning star line, named for Kona Chief Makalii (from Hawaiian Kona, “leeward [southwest horizon, western Hawaii-island village]”; maka li’i, “eyes/stars little”), niches five stars.

The constellation Orion, the planet Saturn, the star line Kekaomakalii outshine Mars and Jupiter conjunction perhaps only in overcast skies during ‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch.

The Kekaomakalii navigational star family and star line possesses as its five stars the most northerly Hokulei, Nanahope and Nanamua, Puana and the most southerly Aa.

Hokulei, Nanamua, Nanahope, Puana, Aa (from Hawaiian hōkūle’a, “star clear, gladness[‘s]”; nāna mua, “star first”; nāna hope, “star last”; puana, “blossom”; ‘a’a, “bright-burning”) queue ancient counterparts. They represent Auriga, Castor, Pollux, Procyon, Sirius (from Latin aurīga, “charioteer”; Doric Greek κάστον, “wood”; Greek πολύς δεῦκος, “much sweet”; πρό κύων, “before dog”; Σείριος, “scorching”). Weather reports for the Hawaii County seat, at Hilo, suggested daytime mixed cloudy, rainy, sunny skies that perhaps started in the pre-dawn hours of the 14th.

Rain-troubled clouds perhaps transformed into twinkling light what Mars and Jupiter conjunction, Orion, Saturn and The Canoe-Bailer of Makalii transmitted to ‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch.

The conjunction of "pumpkin-colored" Mars and "silvery" Jupiter occurred in the center of Taurus the Bull constellation, to the left of the Bull's fiery, right eye, depicted by the constellation's brightest star, luminous red giant variable star Aldebaran (Arabic: الدَّبَران, "The Follower"; Alpha Tauri, α Tauri; Alpha Tau, α Tau), as described by Space.com's skywatching columnist Joe Rao in his Aug. 12, 2024, post, "See Mars and Jupiter form 'double planet' early Aug. 14" (https://www.space.com/jupiter-mars-close-approach-aug-2024); Aldebaran diminutizes the Earth's Sun, with the red giant's estimated diameter of 61 million kilometers equating to 44 times the solar system's white-lit yellow dwarf's diameter of 1.4 million kilometers: Mysid, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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Dedication

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Image credits:

A conjunction of Mars and Jupiter occurred Wednesday, Aug. 14, from the perspective of Earth-based observers; image of sky with Mars-Jupiter conjunction Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, by Adeel Shafiq from Pakistan: EarthSky, via Facebook Aug. 16, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/EarthSky/posts/pfbid02DfXBJk1sBfv8eGh4nLGVFtAvBdDGkvQzV5PgMV5HNvJKV3fnmtCXXxCziDhvP2bjl

The conjunction of "pumpkin-colored" Mars and "silvery" Jupiter occurred in the center of Taurus the Bull constellation, to the left of the Bull's fiery, right eye, depicted by the constellation's brightest star, luminous red giant variable star Aldebaran (Arabic: الدَّبَران, "The Follower"; Alpha Tauri, α Tauri; Alpha Tau, α Tau), as described by Space.com's skywatching columnist Joe Rao in his Aug. 12, 2024, post, "See Mars and Jupiter form 'double planet' early Aug. 14" (https://www.space.com/jupiter-mars-close-approach-aug-2024); Aldebaran diminutizes the Earth's Sun, with the red giant's estimated diameter of 61 million kilometers equating to 44 times the solar system's white-lit yellow dwarf's diameter of 1.4 million kilometers: Mysid, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldebaran-Sun_comparison-en.svg

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