Emerging astronomers - Scavenger hunt & quiz
2026-02-09 19:00 - 20:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Stardome Observatory & Planetarium, 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland, 1345
Are you ready for a recap of last year’s topics?
This month, we’re launching a scavenger hunt based on the topics we tackled last year.
Let’s work together, solve cosmic clues, and race the clock.
After that, be sure to bring your devices for a Kahoot.There’s something for the top team!
If you are joining us, please bring your devices and if you can, download Goosechase as we will be using Goosechase for our session.
Hope to see you there!

Emerging Astronomers - Is There Life on Venus?
2026-08-10 19:00 - 20:00
We’ve changed our minds about that several times. In the 1950s we pictured a warm jungle world. Then multiple spacecraft found a surface at ~400°C that destroyed every lander we sent. Now the question has reopened, this time about Venus’s clouds, and about a chemical signal nobody can explain.
Tim Sol is a Year 11 student at Wentworth Computer Science College, Auckland, and the new leader of the AAS Junior sessions, having volunteered with the Society through 2026’s Matariki solar-telescope outreach. He is a 2025 “15@15 Youth Building Democracy” winner and placed 3rd in the 2025 “Mars 2040” Space Competition (Arts & Business College of London). He founded and led his previous school’s Space Club and co-runs Open Process (a YouTube channel about engineering, robotics, and AI).
