‘Imiloa October 2024 Sky Watch Day Two Aced a Partial Solar Eclipse

Summary: ‘Imiloa October 2024 Sky Watch Day Two aced a partial solar eclipse for about the first 75 minutes of the first daylight hours Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.

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partial solar eclipse Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, viewed from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, the national park encompassing two active volcanoes, Kilauea and Mauna Loa, on the Big Island; image by Stan Honda, New York photographer, photojournalist, astrophotographer and Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's October 2024 artist-in-residence: Stan Honda, via Facebook Oct. 2, 2024

‘Imiloa October 2024 Sky Watch Day Two aced a partial solar eclipse for about the first 75 minutes, as the first 1.25 hours, of the first daylight hours Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.

Eclipse partialness began at 6:45 a.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard (2:45 Chamorro, 5:45 Samoa, 8:45 Alaska, 9:45 Pacific, 10:45 Mountain, 11:45 Central, 12:45 p.m. Eastern, 1:45 Atlantic) Time. It concluded at about 8:00 a.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard (4:00 Chamorro, 7:00 Samoa, 10:00 Alaska, 11:00 Pacific, 12:00 p.m. Mountain, 1:00 Central, 2:00 Eastern, 3:00 Atlantic) Time. The Wednesday-rising sun deferred to cloudy skies from Tuesday the 1st’s mixed cloudy-rainy-sunny skies even as it developed sunny diffusions and dispersals for Thursday’s day-long sunniness.

The easing into and the exiting from the partial solar eclipse at the expressed times and in the expressed meteorology existed over the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center.

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

Its Sky Watch therefore groups with whatever and whoever glimpse the partial solar eclipse over Hilo (from Hawaiian hilo, “thread”), Hawaii County and island, Hawaii state. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in fact heralded a solar eclipse that housed annular (from Latin ānus -ulus, “ring little” via ānulus -āris, “ring-related”) and partial happenings. The solar disc’s ring-like configuration indicates solar coverage of all but outermost contours by the lunar shadow as our Moon itinerates between us and our Sun.

‘Imiloa October 2024 Sky Watch Day Two jubilated a partial solar eclipse whose journey elsewhere joined an annular solar eclipse at beginning junctions and at ending junctures.

Solar eclipses kindle the solar disc keeping totally dark from the central, dark, innermost shadow, known as umbral (from Latin umbra, “shadow”), that our Moon kineticizes.

Eclipsed solar discs link to our Sun languishing partially from the lighter, outermost shadow, listed as penumbral (from Latin paene, “almost”; umbra, “shadow”), that moon-leaving logs. The first external motion of the penumbral edge of the lunar shadow onto the solar disc meant the partness movement of the partial, annular, partial eclipses. The horizon southeast of Hawaii County noted first external notice of the penumbral shadow navigating Earthly surfaces even as our Moon negotiated us and our Sun.

‘Imiloa October 2024 Sky Watch observed the partial solar eclipse occurring before the annular solar eclipse observable southwest of Hawaii County and southeast of Johnston Atoll.

That first external antumbral (from Latin ante, “before”; umbra, “shadow”) peregrination preceded its first internal progression and the greatest eclipse of Earthly center-passaging lunar-shadow cone axis.

Southeasternmost Polynesian Triangle’s Oceania, then quarters north of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands respectively queued the greatest eclipse, then the last internal penumbral quests. Annular, then partial solar eclipses’ last external reaches respectively realized themselves northwest of last internal reach and east of Rio Negro province, northern Patagonia, south-central Argentina. That partial solar eclipse’s last external reach simultaneously situated itself northeast of East Falkland Island, the latter 7,556 miles (13,993.712 kilometers) southeast of Hilo, Hawaii County.

‘Imiloa October 2024 Sky Watch Day Two testified to a partial solar eclipse whose annular, then partial takes terminated 226 minutes later off South-Atlantic coastal Argentina.

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, partial solar eclipse viewed from edge of active shield volcano Kilauea, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, southeastern Big Island; images by Janice Wei: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, via Facebook Oct. 2, 2024

Acknowledgment

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

Dedication

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Image credits:

partial solar eclipse Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, viewed from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, the national park encompassing two active volcanoes, Kilauea and Mauna Loa, on the Big Island; image by Stan Honda, New York photographer, photojournalist, astrophotographer and Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's October 2024 artist-in-residence: Stan Honda, via Facebook Oct. 2, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/StanHonda/posts/10160906269292756/; Stan Honda, via Facebook Oct. 2, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160906269292756&set=ecnf.598497755; Stan Honda, via Facebook Oct. 2, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160906269292756&set=a.84918302755; Sky, via Facebook Oct. 4, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/APOD.Sky/posts/pfbid026RXQaxBZ6B7ZGCCWyRyQCBSM49XWC1mQioUyKRGAJ3BVje5gjxUNSA292FFp6psTl; Sky, via Facebook Oct. 4, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/APOD.Sky/photos/credit-stan-hondahawaii/525846453477270/; stanhonda, via Instagram @ https://www.instagram.com/stanhonda/p/DAonlWVTeus/

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, partial solar eclipse viewed from edge of active shield volcano Kilauea, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, southeastern Big Island; images by Janice Wei: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, via Facebook Oct. 2, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/hawaiivolcanoesnps/posts/pfbid034FH2bSovTxRzhT119VnAmDeFGCma8stjQ8XmcTZ28FEpGWdduLLfRcdN67KCg9gdl

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