AAS Meteor Cameras
The AAS recently purchased two meteor cameras. They have been installed at the Kumeu Observatory site, with one camera facing roughly South East and the other North West. The cameras […]
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New Zealand Astrophotography Competion 2023
Announcing that the 2023 New Zealand Astrophotography Competition is now open for entries. Competition Convenor: Amit Ashok Kamble. This year, things are a little different and it’s going to be […]
AAS Return to the Stardome
The roof replacement and display upgrades to the Auckland Stardome Observatory and Planetarium are nearing completion. Normal Stardome operations will recommence on Monday 19th June. The AAS meetings at Stardome […]
2023 RASNZ Conference
The Auckland Astronomical Society are hosting the 2023 RASNZ Conference over Queen’s Birthday Weekend. Conference Information can be found at the RASNZ website RASNZ Conference 2023
Announcing that the 2022 New Zealand Astrophotography Competition is now open for entries.
Alyn Wallace will judge this year’s competition; Alyn is arguably one of the world’s top Astro, landscape, and timelapse photographers. He was featured on the BBC Two “Moonshot” documentary to […]
Kumeu Observatory
And the crowning achievement of Kumeu Observatory so far was the detection of OGLE-2019-BLG-0960 Lb the smallest mass-ratio microlensing planet found to date.The microlensing alert on OGLE-2019-BLG-0960 had been called […]
Light Pollution Growth in Auckland
This year’s RASNZ Conference is being held online, via YouTube, due to the pandemic. As part of this week’s talk, Steve Butler, President of the Royal Astronomical Society of New […]
Results of the 2019 NZ Astrophotography Competition
This years judge Phil Plait (the bad astronomer) had the following comments SOLAR SYSTEM Winner: John Drummond, Moon and Jupiter This shot of the conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon […]