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Astronomy.—This coming Tuesday, December 8th, that is the day that astronomers around the world will be looking through their Telescopes to watch Venus [Ukali]¹ pass before the face of the Sun. The time to watch around the world is not the same.
¹Ukali i usually associated with Mercury and not Venus.
[Don’t forget! If you are going to be checking out the transit tomorrow, wear those protective glasses made specifically for watching the sun!!]
(Kuokoa, 12/5/1874, p. 2)
Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XIII, Helu 49, Aoao 2. Dekemaba 5, 1874.
For a detailed account of the Transit of Venus in Hawai’i 138 years ago, check out:
http://www.transitofvenus.org/history/1874-1882/278-between-captain-cook-and-mauna-kea
Talk about current events! Thanks for finding this. Posting it on the exhibit wall at the Kauai Museum with the blog address!
Read the official account of the 1874 observations in the Sandwich Islands by the Royal Observatory for the British Government. http://archive.org/stream/accountofobserva00airyrich#page/n3/mode/2up
Also, a Hawaiian Journal of History article:
http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/149/JL27191.pdf?sequence=2
I believe King Kalakaua had a copy of the official account in his library, thanks for posting.
FUN! FUN!! FUN!!!