The Auckland Astronomical Society are hosting the 2023 RASNZ Conference over Queen’s Birthday Weekend. Conference Information can be found at the RASNZ website https://www.rasnz.org.nz/rasnz-info/rasnz-conference/rasnz-conference
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]