STEMM Discovery Day
Date: Sunday 7th May Time: 11:00am to 3:00pm, Venue: Pelorus Trust Sports House, 93 Hutt Park Rd, Lower Hutt This annual event, which runs from 6th – 21st May, […]
April 2017
May Astrophotography Group
Date: Saturday 27th May Time: 7:00pm Venue: See WAS Astrophotography Group Facebook page. Location and updates will be posted on the WAS Astrophotography Group Facebook page closer to the time. […]
May Observing Evening
Date: Every Friday in May (weather permitting) Time: 7:00pm, Venue: Tawa College No official Society Observing Evening this month due to our participation in the Space & Science Festival., but […]
May Meeting
Date: Wednesday, 3rd May Time: 7:30 pm Venue: Space Place (formerly Carter Observatory) The analemma, dials, and digits: some unusual combinations, or Clocks of the Really Long Now. – Duncan Hall […]
Harry Williams Astrophotography Competition
Calling all astrophotographers. The 2017 Harry Williams Astrophotography Competition is now open for entries. This year our judge is world-renowned planetary photographer Damian Peach. In 2010 Damian became the only […]
Newly Discovered Exoplanet May be Best Candidate in Search for Signs of Life
An exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth may be the new holder of the title “best place to look for signs of life beyond the Solar […]
A Freakishly Big Asteroid Is About to Zoom by Earth
On April 18th, an asteroid known as 2014 JO25 will whiz by our Pale Blue Dot from a comfortable distance—it’ll be roughly 1.1 million miles (1.8 million km) away from […]
Aussi Astronomy TV show with Brian Cox
Hopefully coming to NZ soon. http://www.abc.net.au/ourfocus/stargazing/
World’s first Single-Stage-to-Orbit Rocket
ARCA Unveils the World’s first Single-Stage-to-Orbit Rocket
Cassini Saturn Mission Begins ‘Grand Finale’ This Month
http://www.space.com/36351-cassini-saturn-mission-grand-finale-titan.html