Boggled sometimes am I... Friends share pics, and insights, and sometimes I can only marvel. Look: There! Mercury!!! [Really??? Where? How you know???] So many lights in the night sky, and unless theyʻre familiarly-patterned constellations, I get lost. But when a serious avocational astronomer friend points out something, I pay attention. Mahalo piha hf!
On Oʻahu, at sunset, Monday, January 3, 2022, ka mahina hoaka accompanied by Mercury. Amazing. Thanks to
bnt for sharing this pūʻiwa-inducing image.
And keeping with an oranged sky theme, the next two from js, taken late last week.
Many see shapes and patterns, especially, it seems, in clouds. Thanks to hf for pointing out that "Pareidolia" is the term for that, the following from Wikipedia:
"the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none."We might quibble with the "where there is none" part, depending on your belief system, but... Looks to me like Someone looking down at bright pele, while a lei poʻoed dark figure stares too.
No matter, the beauty of the scene is undeniable. Right place, right time...
And if you were here in the ma uka-most reaches of Keaʻau at dawnish today, you wouldʻve experienced a chill, if unprotected from the elements: 45.6dF (thanks tke). While big islands of the pae ʻāina to our north have been drenched of late, itʻs been clear and still here. The absent insulating cloud blanket makes for brrrrisk weather. And my hale has single-paned windows, so when dewpoint is reached inside, water condenses on the glass. Itʻs kind of an informal thermometer: more condensation, lower the temperature. Where we were small and that happened, weʻd write in the glassdew. Now I generally let it dribble. Looking out kitchen window, redorange amaryllises lower right.
And keeping with our This and Thats this morning: Clouds. First below is kinda cool. A heavy ribbon of textured background, cirrusy but denser, though high, with puffs of cumulus at lower altitude.
And via the HVO webcam on the Maunaloa Strip Road, during the luaʻi pele pause Monday, January 3, 2022, ranks of linear cumulus ma kai. Perspective is kinda funnykine, but the bottoms of the clouds are on the same plane, at the inversion layer:
And a double...lens-refracted prismatic image. This is not to be confused with a "Rainbow", cause no moʻ rain! I screenshotted this one yesterday, while in town waiting for my PT appointment.
Light passing through the camera lens does something magical...though of course it has to do with optics and physics, and not magic...
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And yes, Pelehonuamea has returned. She seems to be in a pattern of sorts, so bookmark websites appropriately if youʻre so inclined...
Tremor picked up at about 340a today
The enthusiastic "flood"
And below...hmmmm...The fresh lava seems, to my eyes, a bit pasty. Itʻs not flowing as fluidly as it might. It seems. I think. The crustal skin is broken into smaller, more textured pieces. Pasty = Cooler.
And LOOK! Double prismatic spectrums again. Angle of sunlight, angle of lens...
Tilt sorta plateaued and is headed down?
All we can do is wait and see, and meanwhile, I gotta go walk!
Stay tuned, stay masked, be smart and sensible!
As always, with aloha,
BobbyC
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