‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch Airs Backbone, Fishhook, Kawelo Kite Star Lines

Summary: ‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch airs Backbone, Fishline, Kawelo Kite star lines alightened eveningly, nightly by a galaxy, a planet and four moon phases.

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block print of Manaiakalani Maui's Fishhook, one of three Hawaiian star lines shining in Hawai'i's September 2024 skies, by San Francisco-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist and reportage illustration specialist Jedidiah Dore: Jedidiah Dore Art, via Facebook Feb. 8, 2016

‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch airs Backbone, Fishline, Kawelo Kite star lines alightened eveningly, nightly by a galaxy, a planet, four moon phases, predawnly by a constellation, a star cluster, three planets.

Kalupeakawelo (Kawelo’s kite, the Kawelo kite, from Hawaiian ka lupe a kawelo, “the kite of Kawelo [from ka welo, “the family trait”]”) bides northeasterly to southeasterly. The Kawelo kite contains, as the kite of Kawelo, the Great Square of Pegasus (from Greek πηγή, “fountain, spring-fed fountain, spring” via Πήγασος via Latin Pēgasus). That square domiciles Alpheratz and Scheat, Algenib and Markab (from Arabic surratu l-faras, “the horse’s navel”; as-sāʕid, “the forearm”; al-jānib, “the side”; murakkab, “place of riding”).

Manokalanipo and Kakuhihewa (from Hawaiian manō ka lani pō, “shark the heavenly night[‘s]”; kākuhi hewa, “chart mistakenly”), as Alpheratz and Scheat, embellish square-top left and right.

Kite-bottom left and right Piilani and Keawe (from Hawaiian pi’ilani, “to climb heaven[ward]”; ke awe, “the bearer”) figure square-bottom left and right as Algenib and Markab.

Koolau and Akau horizons guard Cassiopeia north-northeastward as Iwakelii (from Hawaiian ko’olau, “windward”; ‘ākau, “right [of west-ensconced sun]”; ‘iwa ali’i, “frigatebird [Fregata minor] chief”; Greek Κασσιόπη). Those same north-northeast horizons house the constellation Cepheus as Kamoi (from Greek Κηφεύς, “gardener”; Hawaiian ka mōʻī, “the king”), west of Iwakelii and north of Kakuhihewa. Saturn inhabits early-morning, east-evening, east-night skies north of Kukaniloko (Formalhaut [from Arabic famu l-ḥūt, “the fish mouth”], from Hawaiian kū kani loko, “to anchor sound within”).

Backbone, whose Nalani journeys Hema-ward (from Hawaiian nā lani, “the heavens”; hema, “[west-ensconced sun] left[-ward]”), Fishhook, Kawelo Kite star lines join ‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch.

Manaiakalani keeps centerward Akau to Kona ([demigod] Maui’s fishhook, from Hawaiian māui, “bruise, sprain”; mana ia ka lani, “hook fish the chief[‘s]”; kona, “keeward, southwest”) horizons.

Maui’s Fishhook lodges stars top-left Deneb, top-right Vega, bottom-center Altair (from Arabic ḏanab ad-dajāja, “hen’s tail”; al-nasr al-wāqi, “the descending eagle”; an-nasr aṭ-ṭāʔir, “the flying eagle”). Hikina- and Komohana-centered Piraetea, Keoe, Humu (from Hawaiian komo, “west [where sun] enters [sea]”; Pira’etea, “white sea-swallow”; keoe, “sweet potato”; humu, “fish-hook hole”) maintain Summer-Triangle stars. The southerly Chief’s Fishhook nestles Hema- and Kona-niched Sagittarius and Scorpius (from Latin sagittal -ārius, “arrow concerning, having”; Greek σκορπῐ́ος, “scorpion”) respectively as Pimoe and Kamakaunulmaui.

Backbone, with outstanding Kamakaunuiamaui (from Hawaiian ka makau nui a māui, “the fishhook big Maui[‘s]”), Fishhook, Kawelo Kite star lines obliges ‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch.

Evening-centered, night-centered skies present the fish Pimoe (from Hawaiian pīmoe, “trevally [ulua locally, Caranx spp scientifically]”) even as Hoolua, Komohana, Kona horizons possess the Kaiwikuamoo line.

The Kaiwikuamoo (from Hawaiian ka iwi kua moo, “the bone back lizard[s]”) star line queues the North Star, as Hokupaa (from Hawaiian hōkū pa’a, “star immovable”). It represents the Big Dipper, as Nahiku south of Hokupaa, north of Hokulea, on Hoolua horizon (from nā hiku, “the seven”; ho’olua, “[rain-bearing strong] north wind”). Backbone, with Hokulea (from Hawaiian hōkū le’a, “star clear/happy”; Greek ᾰ̓́ρκτος οὖρος, “bear guard” via Ᾰ̓ρκτοῦρος) and Fishhook star lines, unlike Kawelo Kite, seek Komohana horizon).

‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch tracks Backbone’s Hōkūle’a, Hōkūpa’a, Nāhiku; Fishhook’s Humu, Kamakaunuiamāui, Keoe, Pīmoe, Pira’etea; Kawelo Kite’s ‘Iwakeli’i, Kākuhihewa, Kamō’ī, Keawe, Kūkaniloko, Manokalanipō, Nālani, Pi’ilani.

block print of Kaiwikuamo'o the Backbone, one of three Hawaiian star lines shining in Hawai'i's September 2024 skies, by San Francisco-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist and reportage illustration specialist Jedidiah Dore: Jedidiah Dore Art, via Facebook Feb. 6, 2016

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

block print of Manaiakalani Maui's Fishhook, one of three Hawaiian star lines shining in Hawai'i's September 2024 skies, by San Francisco-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist and reportage illustration specialist Jedidiah Dore: Jedidiah Dore Art, via Facebook Feb. 8, 2016, @ https://www.facebook.com/jedidore/posts/808116935961655; via Facebook Feb. 6, 2016, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=808116935961655&set=a.294810787292275; via Facebook Feb. 6, 2016, @ https://www.facebook.com/jedidore/photos/pb.100063689647718.-2207520000/808116935961655/

block print of Kaiwikuamo'o the Backbone, one of three Hawaiian star lines shining in Hawai'i's September 2024 skies, by San Francisco-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist and reportage illustration specialist Jedidiah Dore: Jedidiah Dore Art, via Facebook Feb. 6, 2016, @ https://www.facebook.com/jedidore/posts/807164719390210; via Facebook Feb. 6, 2016, @ https://www.facebook.com/jedidore/photos/pb.100063689647718.-2207520000/807164719390210/

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