‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch Appears Most Active Under Full Moons

Summary: ‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch appears most active under full moons as moon-phase hosts to the Autumnal Equinox and to a penumbral lunar eclipse.

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'Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch (from Hawaiian 'imi loa, "to search far") acclaims its most active accomplishments under full moons from Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2024, to Monday, Sep. 23, 2024. It acknowledges a penumbral (from Latin paene umbra, “almost shadow” via penumbra, “part-shaded area around a shadow’s edges”) lunar eclipse Monday the 17th. It addresses the Autumnal Equinox, also affirmed as the Fall Equinox, of same-length day and same-length night Sunday the 22nd; graphic of "The orientation of the earth as viewed from the center of the moon during greatest eclipse," September 2024: SockPuppetForTomruen at English Wikipedia, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch appears most active, of four lunar phases, under full moons as moon-phase hosts to the Autumnal Equinox, also acknowledged as Fall Equinox, and a penumbral lunar eclipse.

Mahina hou (from Hawaiian mahina hou, “moon fresh, new, recent”) begins the new-moon lunar phase Monday, Sep. the 2nd and bears it through Tuesday the 10th. It comes, as carryover that considers one month concluding and another month commencing, after the last day, Sunday the 1st, of the August last-quarter, waning-moon phase. It domiciles no cloud-free sunniness even as cloudy-sunny, cloudy-rainy-sunny skies respectively describe Monday the 9th, Tuesday the 10th; and Tuesday the 3rd through Monday the 9th.

Perhaps that overcast and that precipitation extends into the evening and the night hours between each dusky sunset and each early-morning sunrise and exacerbates moonlight-extinguished skies.

University of Hawaii’s 200-acre (80.9371-hectare) Science and Technology Park features ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center (from Hawaiian ‘imi loa, “to search far”; ha wai ‘i, “breath life-force supreme”).

Hilo (from Hawaii hilo, “thread”), Hawaii County seat in South Hilo district, Hawaii island, Hawaii state, guards the 9-acre (3.64217 hectares) astronomy and culture education center. Sky Watch happens there 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, 3:00 Atlantic) Time onward. Mahina hapalua mua (first-quarter phase, from Hawaiian mahina hapa[-]lua mua, “moon half[-]double first”) invokes its six waxing-moon days there, from Wednesday the 11th through Monday the 16th.

‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch jubilates one eclipse, one equinox, one galaxy, one star cluster, three planets, three starlines in journeys most active under full moons.

Wednesday the 11th, Sunday the 15th and Monday the 16th keep mixed cloudy-sunny skies even as Thursday the 12th through Saturday the 14th know cloudy-rainy-sunny get-togethers.

Perhaps that overcast and that precipitation lasts into the evening and the night hours from each twilighted sunset to each twilit sunrise and lords moonlight-lessened skies. Mahina o hoku, mahina piha, mahina poepoe (from Hawaiian mahina o hōkū, “moon star[‘]”; mahina piha, “moon full”; mahina poepoe, “moon round”) matters as full-moon phase. Monday the 17th, Saturday the 21st; Tuesday the 18th, Wednesday the 19th, Monday the 23rd; Friday the 20th, Sunday the 22nd niche cloudy-sunny, cloudy-rainy-sunny, sunny skies.

‘Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch offers its observers its most active occurrences under the full moons that optimize one eclipse, one equinox and two sunny days.

The full-moon lunar phase presents a penumbral (from Latin paene umbra, “almost shadow” via penumbra, “part-shaded area around a shadow’s edges”) lunar eclipse Monday the 17th.

The full-moon lunar phase queues the Autumnal Equinox (from Latin aequus nox, “equal night” via aequinoctium, “equinox”), also qualified as the Fall Equinox, Sunday the 22nd. Mahina hapalua hope (last-, waning-moon phase, from Hawaiian mahina hapa[-]lua hope, "moon half[-]double last") represents the last-quarter moon phase, from Sep. 24 through Sep. 30. Tuesday the 24th, Saturday the 28th; Wednesday the 25th, Monday the 30th; Thursday the 26th, Friday the 27th, Sunday the 29th sequence sunny, cloudy-sunny, cloudy-rainy-sunny skies.

'Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch tallies its most active times under full moons even as all phases treat a constellation, a galaxy, moons, planets and stars.

'Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch, at 'Imiloa Astronomy Center, University of Hawaii Science and Technology Park, Hilo, Hawaii County and island, Hawaii state (from Hawaiian 'imi loa, "to search far"; ha wai 'i, "breath life-force supreme"; hilo, "thread"), apprises us of the same-length day, same-length night of the Autumnal Equinox, also appreciated as the Fall Equinox (from Latin aequus nox, “equal night” via aequinoctium, “equinox”), Sunday the 22nd; graphic of "Illumination of Earth by the Sun on the day of the equinox (vernal and autumnal). A view of the eastern hemisphere showing noon in Central European time zone (ignoring DST) on the day of the equinox.": Przemyslaw "Blueshade" Idzkiewicz, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

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'Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch (from Hawaiian 'imi loa, "to search far") acclaims its most active accomplishments under full moons from Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2024, to Monday, Sep. 23, 2024. It acknowledges a penumbral (from Latin paene umbra, “almost shadow” via penumbra, “part-shaded area around a shadow’s edges”) lunar eclipse Monday the 17th. It addresses the Autumnal Equinox, also affirmed as the Fall Equinox, of same-length day and same-length night Sunday the 22nd; graphic of "The orientation of the earth as viewed from the center of the moon during greatest eclipse," September 2024: SockPuppetForTomruen at English Wikipedia, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_eclipse_from_moon-2024Sep18.png

'Imiloa September 2024 Sky Watch, at 'Imiloa Astronomy Center, University of Hawaii Science and Technology Park, Hilo, Hawaii County and island, Hawaii state (from Hawaiian 'imi loa, "to search far"; ha wai 'i, "breath life-force supreme"; hilo, "thread"), apprises us of the same-length day, same-length night of the Autumnal Equinox, also appreciated as the Fall Equinox (from Latin aequus nox, “equal night” via aequinoctium, “equinox”), Sunday the 22nd; graphic of "Illumination of Earth by the Sun on the day of the equinox (vernal and autumnal). A view of the eastern hemisphere showing noon in Central European time zone (ignoring DST) on the day of the equinox.": Przemyslaw "Blueshade" Idzkiewicz, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth-lighting-equinox_EN.png

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