Author: Bill Thomas

This year’s judge Dylan O’Donnell has announced the competition winners.  The results and Dylan’s comments can be viewed via youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPNQZrRnKs&t

Amit Ashok Kamble has published a video featuring the entries in the 2023 New Zealand Astrophotography Competition. The winners will be announced at the AAS 2023 Burbidge Dinner. The entries […]

The AAS recently purchased two meteor cameras. They have been installed at the Kumeu Observatory site, with one camera facing roughly South East and the other North West. The cameras […]

Announcing that the 2023 New Zealand Astrophotography Competition is now open for entries. Competition Convenor: Amit Ashok Kamble. This year, things are a little different and it’s going to be […]

The roof replacement and display upgrades to the Auckland Stardome Observatory and Planetarium are nearing completion. Normal Stardome operations will recommence on Monday 19th June. The AAS meetings at Stardome […]

The Auckland Astronomical Society are hosting the 2023 RASNZ Conference over Queen’s Birthday Weekend. Conference Information can be found at the RASNZ website RASNZ Conference 2023

Alyn Wallace will judge this year’s competition; Alyn is arguably one of the world’s top Astro, landscape, and timelapse photographers. He was featured on the BBC Two “Moonshot” documentary to […]

And the crowning achievement of Kumeu Observatory so far was the detection of OGLE-2019-BLG-0960 Lb the smallest mass-ratio microlensing planet found to date.The microlensing alert on OGLE-2019-BLG-0960 had been called […]