Posted on: April, 20th, 2019 | in Meetings, Planets, Uncategorized
Vapour trail caught on camera A screenshot taken from a video sent to SunLive (video: SunLive/Chris & Amber Wyatt) Tauranga Astronomical Society features in a recent article published on SunLive – Tauranga’s Weekend Sun newspaper on-line news department. Last week the SunLive newsroom contacted us via our website. They sent a video […] Read more»
Posted on: March, 13th, 2019 | in Observatory, Planets, Solar System, Telescopes
The featured image is the Orion Nebula (Source: EarthSky) The Orion Nebula is a place where new stars are being born. It’s a diffuse nebula in our galaxy (The Milky Way). As viewed from the Earth the nebula is in the Orion constellation. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is […] Read more»
Posted on: February, 5th, 2019 | in Meetings, Planets, Solar System
~ Our next meeting is Tuesday 12th February The Wonders, Origins and Diversity of Life presented by noted English Astrophysicist Prof. Brian Cox Biodiversity – examples of life on earth Seeing Inside the Sun Surface of the Sun (Source: youtube) New Horizons’ Discoveries Around Pluto Three billion miles from Earth, NASA’s […] Read more»
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