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: April, 7th, 2019 | in General, Meetings, Solar System
The band of the Milky Way galaxy can be seen at night in areas with dark skies. Here it is seen with several Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arra (ALMA) antenna. (Credit: ESO/B. Tafreshi Our next meeting is this Tuesday 9th April The Program On-screen presentations – The formation of Our Galaxy […] Read more»
Posted on: March, 24th, 2019 | in Astrophotography, Meetings, Telescopes
The featured image is an amateur image of the Orion Nebula taken with a Sony Alpha A6300 camera. (Source: Wikipedia) Our next meeting is this Tuesday 26th March The Program – Daniel Evans will present an address about SpaceX. SpaceX is a private company that designs and launches spacecraft. […] Read more»
