Lahaina Midday – Wikipedia
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Tropical photo voltaic phenomenon
Lāhainā Midday is a semi-annual tropical photo voltaic phenomenon when the Sun culminates on the zenith at solar noon, passing straight overhead (above the subsolar point).[1] The time period “lāhainā midday” was coined by the Bishop Museum in Hawaiʻi.[2]
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The subsolar point travels by way of the tropics. Hawaiʻi is the one US state within the tropics and thus the one one to expertise Lāhainā Midday.[3] In 2022 and 2023, the phenomenon occurred in Honolulu on Might 26 and July 16.[2]
Hawaii and different places between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn obtain the solar’s direct rays because the obvious path of the solar passes overhead earlier than and after the summer solstice.
Lāhainā Midday can happen wherever from 12:16 to 12:43 p.m. Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time. At that second objects that stand straight up (flagpoles, bollards, phone poles, and so forth.) solid no outward shadow. Essentially the most southerly factors in Hawaii expertise Lāhainā Midday on earlier and later dates than the northern components. For instance, in 2001 Hilo on the Island of Hawaiʻi encountered the overhead solar round Might 18 and July 24, Kahului, Maui, on Might 24 and July 18, Honolulu, Oʻahu, on Might 26 and July 15 and Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi, on Might 31 and July 11. Between every pair of dates, the solar is barely to the north at photo voltaic midday.[4]
Chosen in a contest sponsored by the Bishop Museum within the Nineteen Nineties, Lāhainā Midday was the chosen appellation as a result of lā hainā (the previous title for Lāhainā, Hawaii) means “merciless solar” within the Hawaiian language.[5] The ancient Hawaiian title for the occasion was kau ka lā i ka lolo which interprets as “the solar rests on the brains.”[3][6]
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The occasion is commonly lined by Hawaiʻi media.[3][7][8][9] Actions are related to the occasion.[10]
Sky Gate, a singular sculpture in Honolulu created by world-renowned artist and panorama architect Isamu Noguchi, contains a flexible, bumpy ring that drastically modifications top because it goes round. A lot of the 12 months, it makes a curvy, twisted shadow on the bottom, however throughout Lāhainā Midday, the height-changing ring casts an ideal round shadow on the bottom.[11] There are sometimes actions held by the Metropolis & County of Honolulu across the time of the occasion on the Frank Fasi Civic Grounds, the place the sculpture is positioned.
The phenomenon happens in tales, together with “Lāhainā Midday” by Eric Paul Shaffer (Leaping Canine, 2005),[12] which gained the Ka Palapala Po’okela e-book award for Excellence in “Aloha from past Hawai’i”.[13][14]
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References[edit]
- ^ “Clock, sun rarely match at noon”. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. December 31, 2008. Archived from the unique on July 17, 2023. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
- ^ a b “Lāhainā Noon”. Bishop Museum. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
- ^ a b c Nancy Alima Ali (Might 11, 2010). “Noon sun not directly overhead everywhere”. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
- ^ “‘Lahaina Noon’ coming here soon”. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Might 23, 2001. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
- ^ Mary Kawena Pukui; Samuel Hoyt Elbert; Esther T. Mookini (2004). “lookup of Lā-hainā “. in Place Names of Hawai’i. Ulukau, the Hawaiian Digital Library, University of Hawaii Press. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
- ^ Mary Kawena Pukui; Samuel Hoyt Elbert (2003). “lookup of Lolo“. in Hawaiian Dictionary. Ulukau, the Hawaiian Digital Library, University of Hawaii Press. Retrieved Might 26, 2011.
- ^ “Newswatch: Shadows disappear today at Lahaina noon”. Honoluu Star-Bulletin. Might 27, 2006. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ Kaichi, Carolyn (April 29, 2007). “Earth at prime tilt to view Mercury at apex”. Honolulu Advertiser. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ Miura, Kelli (July 11, 2008). “Lahaina Noon flits over Honolulu on Tuesday”. Honolulu Advertiser. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ “Liliha Library to host ‘Lāhainā Noon,’ ‘StarLab’ astro events”. Honolulu Advertiser. July 15, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ Keany, Michael (June 30, 2008). “Skygate”. Honolulu journal. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ Adams, Wanda A. (June 26, 2005). “‘Lāhainā Noon’ about a warm, clear feeling”. Honolulu Advertiser. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ “Ka Palapala Po’okela winners named”. Honolulu Advertiser. October 29, 2006. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
- ^ Nakaso, Dan (Might 26, 2011). “Shadow lessons: Educators will show kids and adults the marvels of a Lahaina Noon event”. Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Archived from the original on August 4, 2011.
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