Above, on the glorious morning of October 14 last, I captured this. Flat-topped Mākanaka is straight up from Bayshore Tower, the big white vertical box.
Now. About that OOPS! Sharp, astronomically-inclined eyes of hf caught this one. I sometimes tell people: Iʻm a land guy. Plants, rocks, like that. I donʻt know much about ocean people, or about the cosmos, but am always happy to learn.
Following is a sequence of photos with explanatory text. Bear with me. I posted the one immediately below on January 2, with a comment about the "headlights" at Kīlauea Overlook. But...no was!!!
TryLook an image from December 28 I annotated and posted:
Same camera, same angle! Babooze! I neva notice no can see Kīlauea Overlook! The panoramic curve wen chrow me off...
Then...from hf: Look the "headlights"...
Manuel! Was Da Moon coming up!!! Not da headlight! Ai-yah!!!
I apologize... And the dim lights at horizon left are likely at Volcano House. Or maybe at Wahinekapu. I think. But. Get only one moon. How come get two lights? Iʻm told that that has to do with refraction in the atmosphere and reflection in the lenses of the camera, and as Mahina rises higher, the ghost image and the actual image of Mahina nearly resolve. Iʻm told that gotta point the camera straight at the bright Mahina light to eliminate ghosts.
And another miss...sharp-eyed friend fat pointed this out, cropped from the magnificent sunrise photo I posted yesterday. Kamapuaʻa visiting Pelehonuamea:
Kama, the eight-eyed puaʻa, mouth agape, still pines for Pele apparently...
Also from yesterday, a view through a laser viewfinder rangefinder of the orangeyellow vent on the floor by HVOʻs KLynn:
A dome fountain on the floor at the edge of lokopele. Pointy complex are the West Vents. To the right of the tip of the point and the blueish fume, is a fine-grained blanket of cinder and other tephra. The dome fountain is perhaps a drowned vent. Kinda like holding a hosepipe vertically with moderate flow. The water gurgles out. And of course the concentric shinybright silver of just-crusted pele on the floor. A he nani maoli nō...
And about the bright star appearing on the Maunaloa Strip Road webcam...
See the white dot maybe half way down, two-thirds to the right? Itʻs Kealiʻiokonaikalewa (Ke-aliʻi-o-Kona-i-ka-lewa) a.k.a. Canopus...mahalo again to hf!
And then, yesterday I included a photo of the pāhoehoe pele of September 1982? TryLook...
Below is a closeup of portion of the image...I hope you can make it out. If not, find the original in HVO Photos and Video for 1/2/21...
TryLook good in the center of the image just above, and parallel to, the September 1982 "bath tub ring".
See the humps bumps? The irregular surface?
In 1942, during WWII, the Hawaiian Department ordered bulldozing that area of the caldera floor to prevent planes from landing. Workers very tidily made a series of humps.
You can barely, fuzzily, see them on the [founder "scars" or textures] Google Earth image I posted yesterday, at the bottom, just to the left of "Image © 2020 Maxar Technologies".
Above, the "Kīlauea Landing Field", unpaved. The curvy line to the left is/was Crater Rim Drive. Big hump on horizon is Kānenuiohamo, and smaller, darker irregular hump to its right is Puʻuhuluhulu.
And...Yes, as far as the eruption, oia mau nō...Pele continues her work... Kinda easy to see the encircling ledge, built up during risings and fallings of loko pele.
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