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Northern Star Party – September 15 -17, 2023
15/09/2023 @ 8:00 am - 17/09/2023 @ 11:30 am
Dark Sky Weekend
We are excited to announce the dates for the second Northern Star Party for 2023 held at Waharau Regional Park and hosted by the Auckland Astronomical Society. We are holding the event over Friday 15th and Saturday 16th of September. Packing up on the morning of the 17th.
It will be a weekend of practical astronomy and dark sky observing. It is great opportunity to spend a weekend viewing the sky from a dark site, on Moonless nights, though a range of different telescopes. Bring your telescope or binoculars, but if you don’t have any there will be plenty there for you to look through. Also the society has telescopes available for hire though the hire will have to be set up external to the camp. Refer to the club for further details.
During the day on Saturday, there will be a full program of practical astronomy – how to use equipment and various types of telescopes, new equipment demonstrations and an astrophotography workshop.
Films will be shown in the early evening on Friday and if appropriate on Saturday.
The full information pack and agenda will be released shortly. We just wanted to get the dates out so that you can lock them in now!
| Prices | Members | Non-members |
| Early Bird paid by 8th September | $20 | $40 |
| Standard | $30 | $50 |
No one night price.
To book, please log into Hello Club at Click here for link
Program:
Friday: Viewing, movie (TBC)
Saturday:
Workshops: Midday to 4:30 pm.
| Time | Activity | Details |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Astronomy Equipment | Familiarisation, maintenance, collimation, etc |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Astronomy Processing | TBA |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Telescope trail | Telescope trail |
Viewing from 19:00, movie (TBC)
Food: BYO – walk-in fridge and kitchen available. Tea, coffee, milo (morning/afternoon tea) supplied.