He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above, In losing the Sight of Land You Discover the Stars

On June 18th, ʻImiloa Astronomy Center and the Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium at Seminole State College of Florida in Orlando presented a 1.5-hour virtual public program titled, He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above, In losing the Sight of Land You Discover the Stars. ʻImiloa staff, Kālepa Baybayan, MEd, Navigator in Residence, and Emily Peavy, MEd, Planetarium Technician, co-presented the afternoon’s program. Topics of the presentation included deep-sea canoe voyaging, exploration, and oceanic history; wayfinding, the indigenous system of navigation and orientation at sea; and Nā ʻOhana Hōkū ʻEhā, The Four-Star Families, an orientation to the oceanic night sky.