By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i on January 7, 2019 • Updated on January 7, 2019 at 5:12 pm
By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i Posted on January 7, 2019 • Updated on January 7, 2019 at 5:12 pm
Once again we return to the first of our four star families, Kekaomakali‘i, the Bailer of Makali‘i, as it makes its nightly east-to-west progression across the horizon.
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By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i on September 30, 2018 • Updated on September 29, 2018 at 10:22 pm
By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i Posted on September 30, 2018 • Updated on September 29, 2018 at 10:22 pm
The twin stars in the bucket of the Little Dipper, Holopuni (Kochab) and Hokumau (Pherkad) are good clues for determining latitude in the southern hemisphere.
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By Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai’i Posted on May 27, 2018
As spring turns to summer, the months of May and June have provided Polynesian mariners the best season for making a Tahiti-to-Hawaii Pacific passage.
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By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai“i Posted on March 25, 2018
On March 20 the sun crossed north over the equator in an event called the equinox, a juncture when daylight and nighttime are about equal in length, heralding the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The Hawaiian word associated with this season is Kupulau (Sprouting Leaf).
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By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii Posted on February 25, 2018
This month we focus on the third and final skill set essential for celestial navigation. After orienting the canoe and determining the canoe’s position at sea, the final challenge becomes making landfall.
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By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii Posted on January 28, 2018 • Updated on January 27, 2018 at 10:46 pm
To navigate the seas using only the stars and other clues from nature, one needs to learn three essential functions: orienting the canoe, determining the canoe’s position at sea and making landfall.
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By Chad Kalepa Baybayan
and Emily Peavy ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii Posted on December 31, 2017 • Updated on December 30, 2017 at 10:39 pm
From the completion of the epic voyage of the Hokule‘a to the naming of an asteroid detected from Hawaii, and the latest findings of gravitational waves in space, 2017 has been an exciting year for astronomical explorations on Earth and in space.
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By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i Posted on November 26, 2017 • Updated on November 25, 2017 at 9:23 pm
Mastering any skill takes passion and a commitment of time. Once achieved, a skill can last a lifetime of practice, but it is accessible only to the master unless it is passed on to others.
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By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i Posted on October 29, 2017 • Updated on October 28, 2017 at 7:58 pm
The beauty of the Star Compass is its natural symmetry and reflective quality, allowing the navigator to use nature’s clues to determine direction.
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By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i on September 24, 2017 • Updated on September 23, 2017 at 11:09 pm
By Chad Kalepa Baybayan and Emily Peavy, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i Posted on September 24, 2017 • Updated on September 23, 2017 at 11:09 pm
The recent completion of the three-year Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage by the voyaging canoe Hokule‘a underscores the timeless relevance of this indigenous system of celestial navigation.
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By Mike Shanahan, Bishop Museum on August 27, 2017
By Mike Shanahan, Bishop Museum Posted on August 27, 2017
Aloha everybody! This will be my final Skywatch article. I am delighted, and a little wistful, to announce that I have accepted a position at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J., across from lower Manhattan.
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By Mike Shanahan, Bishop Museum on July 30, 2017 • Updated on July 29, 2017 at 11:02 pm
By Mike Shanahan, Bishop Museum Posted on July 30, 2017 • Updated on July 29, 2017 at 11:02 pm
For the United States, the biggest astronomy story for 2017 is the total eclipse of the sun that occurs over much of the continental U.S. on Aug. 21.
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By Mike Shanahan, Bishop Museum Posted on June 25, 2017
While we lose the Southern Cross from the Hawaiian Islands by the time July starts, the month does provide a last chance to catch the brilliant stars Alpha and Beta Centauri, the best summertime stars we see in Hawaii and which are not visible from most of the United States.
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By Mike Shanahan, Bishop Museum on April 30, 2017
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By Mike Shanahan, Bishop Museum Posted on April 30, 2017
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In the tropics, the sun passes overhead twice during the year. On these two days, the sun will be exactly overhead at midday and an upright object such as a flagpole will have no shadow.
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