Monthly Meeting November -Dot to Dot in the Sky – The Nature of Night

Stardome Observatory 670 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

Early cultures sought connections between what happened on Earth and what occurred overhead. They told stories to explain the stars, auroras, and other night sky phenomena. Discover legends of the […]

Astrophotography Group November

Stardome Observatory 670 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

Comet stacking and other features of Deep Sky Stacker with Eric Chiu.

Practical Astronomy November – Variable Stars

Stardome Observatory 670 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

Observation of variable stars has a long history with amateur astronomy. We will discuss the types of variable stars and how to observe them to obtain scientifically useful data. This […]

Monthly Meeting December – Exploring the Gravitational Wave Universe

Stardome Observatory 670 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

Measuring gravitational waves is a revolutionary new way to do astronomy. They were predicted by Einstein, but it was not until 2015, that LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) first […]

Practical Astronomy – The Summer Night Sky

Stardome Observatory 670 Manukau Rd, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

This will be one of our quarterly planetarium sessions where we will review the Summer Night Sky using the Planetarium.