Hi everyone Please find this month’s newsletters and star charts attached. This month there is an interesting number of papers and news items on my favorite class of stars, looking at planets around r

Hi Everyone Andrew has put together a range of images and links from the Perseverance Rover, as always he finds the best images and links. I always do enjoy his updates. I personally was luck enough t

Ian Griffin – Chasing the Auroura This sure was a packed talk from Ian here in Wellington! I was lucky enough to have met Ian once before in Cooks Beach for the transit of Mercury in November 2019. Ia

Hi everyone Please find this month’s newsletters and Starcharts attached. There is no shortage of interesting papers this month. The highlights are the planets around Trappist-1 and TOI 178 two intere

Not Yet Imagined: A Study of Hubble Space Telescope Operations Hi everyone this looks like a great e-book to download and have a read of. Not Yet Imagined Not Yet Imagined Not Yet Imagined documents t

Hi everyone Please find this months starcharts and Keeping in touch newsletter from John D Cheers Astronomy/News/Photos are my main interests and more links can be found @ Astronomy in New Zealand - G

Merry Christmas everyone. Please find the attached usual newsletters, I haven’t had this month’s star charts for this month, but if you’re in New Zealand you might not have had much use for them anywa

Starfield Observatory Hi all John sure has been busy since I last made it out to his observatory complex near Martinbourgh the trees have grown and the observatories too. It’s a real credit to John an

The future of Earth and also a look at Proxima C Please join the following groups for further discussions and information Astronomy in New Zealand - Groups.io https://groups.io/g/AstronomyNZ Astronomy

Going to be great to watch over the next month https://www.universalworkshop.com/2020/11/24/high-powered-view/ Please join the following groups for further discussions and information Astronomy in New

Hi everyone Please find all the usual star chart’s and newsletters attached along with a few interesting bits of research. There is a good look at the search for the proposed outer ice giant this mont

Hi all It was a great weekend away in Foxton at the NZ Astrophotography weekend. There was no shortage of telescopes to check out and admire. It was a nice clear night Saturday night and I managed to

The Southern Cross and pointers One here for people to enjoy from the northern hemisphere, there were some street lights in this direction, and the cabin I was in for the night can be seen too. New Ze

A night under the stars It was good to give the 650D a workout and snap this one of everyone with their gear and hard at work under the stars, my DSLR is now over 8 years old too! New Zealand Astropho

Hi Everyone Important news requires an important update. Attached are two interesting papers about the Moon and water on the surface to have a look at. The observations were made from SOFIA which ofte

Hi everyone Please find this month’s news, starcharts and as always a few of this month’s best research items. You will be pleased to know the satellite Collison didn’t happen it sure was a nice day s

Hi Folks Twitter seems to be down, but to the best of my knowledge this is going to be 2pm today! Links and info below Cheers Edwin Possible inter-satellite collision on Friday Possible inter-satellit

Beauty in the Stars – Steve C I have known Steve for many years and he sure is one amazing photographer of deep sky objects. In fact the images looking amazing on the projector in the darkened room, I

Hi everyone Please find all the usual, starcharts and newsletters attached along with some research papers too. With the news about Phosphine in the clouds of Venus I have added in some good ones on V

Hi everyone Please find all the usual newsletters, starcharts and papers attached. Its Covid level level 2 for us in Wellington and NZ until Sunday night (29th Aug) and its level 3 for the Auckland re