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SUMMARY:Introduction to Astronomy April 2021
DESCRIPTION:What is Dark Matter?\nThe Evidence\, the Candidates & the Search\nIf you are interested in how the Universe appears and behaves on large scales\, you will enjoy this essential talk. Attendees will also receive a ten-page handout on dark matter covering the discussion and expanding on selected points. \n85% of the matter in the Universe is elusive dark matter that we cannot directly observe\, but presence is seen through its effects on the surrounding environment. Tonight\, Chris Benton discusses compelling evidence for dark matter and its importance in the structure and evolution of the Universe. Following this\, an outline of dark matter’s apparent properties leads into identifying the candidate particles and the experiments designed to detect them. \nWe look forward to seeing you all there.
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/introduction-to-astronomy-april-2021/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Introduction To Astronomy
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SUMMARY:Northern Star Party -  Waharau Regional Park - Event Sold Out!
DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, this event is now sold out- can put people on waitlist to replace any cancellations. \nNorthern Star Party (Dark Sky Weekend) at Waharau Regional Park. – April 9th to 11th 2021. Put this in your calendar! \nIt is also open to non – Astronomical Society to attend. It’s a great fun weekend.\nThe Auckland Astronomical Society’s Waharau Dark Sky Weekend (2021 Northern Star Party – Dark Sky Weekend) is held at Waharau Regional Park 1748 East Coast Rd\, Orere Point\, Whakatiwai 2473 (about 1 hours drive from central Auckland) starting on Friday 9th April at 5pm and ending Sunday 11th April at 11am. \nIt will be a weekend of practical astronomy and dark sky observing. It is great opportunity to spend a weekend viewing the sky from a dark site on Moonless nights thought a range of different telescopes. Bring your telescope or binoculars\, but if you don’t have any there will be plenty there for you to look through. Also the society has telescopes available for hire. Contact Steve Hennerley (027) 245 6441 or Darren Woodley 021776481 email: rental@astronomy.org.nz to get these. Book now as these can become booked out! \nDuring the day on Saturday there will be a full programme of practical astronomy – how to use equipment and various types of telescopes\, new equipment demonstrations and an astrophotography workshop. \nFilms will be shown in the early evening on Friday and if appropriate on Saturday. \nPrice:\nAAS Member earlybird $20.00. Payment received by Friday 26th March.\nAAS Member standard $30.00\nNon-member earlybird $40.00. Payment received by Friday 26th March.\nNon-member standard $50.00\nThis price includes bunk bed type accommodation. \nTo book please pay the amounts as set out above into the Auckland Astronomical Society Inc ASB bank account: Account number: 12-3061-0321397-00 with the notation “Waharau” and your name and then email Gavin Logan: gavinlgn@gmail.com giving the names of the people attending.\nThere is an event limit of 65. The last Waharau Star Party sold out. Booking will be confirmed once payment has been made.
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/northern-star-party-waharau-regional-park/
LOCATION:Waharau Regional Park\, 1748 East Coast Rd\, Orere Point\, Whakatiwai\, 2473
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20210412T190000
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SUMMARY:Young Astronomers April
DESCRIPTION:The Young Astronomers Group for Junior members discusses current topics in space exploration and astronomy.
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/young-astronomers-april/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Young Astronomers
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SUMMARY:Monthly Meeting April
DESCRIPTION:With Rolf Wahl Olsen. \nMy talk will be about latest images and achievements in the last two years\, including the first amateur image of light echoes of Supernova 1987A and a new collaboration with NASA on a multi-wavelength image of Centaurus A. \nI have been interested in astronomy for as long as I can remember and have observed the night sky visually for decades with both binoculars and telescopes. In 1990 I got my first telescope\, a 60mm alt-az refractor. A couple of years later I upgraded to a 100mm refractor on an equatorial mount and in 1995 I got a 10 inch f/5 Newtonian reflector. This telescope was used extensively for both planetary and deep sky observing and in 2003 I ventured into the world of astrophotography and began taking images with a long-exposure modified webcam. In 2011 I built a Serrurier truss 12.5 inch f/4 Newtonian and then upgraded the webcam to a highly sensitive QSI683wsg CCD camera which I now use to take all my images. \nThe modified webcam was a great opportunity to learn as it required me to really work on developing processing skills in order to achieve good results. It also forced me to think carefully about my choice of subjects\, given the webcam’s limited resolution and low sensitivity. My later images taken with the CCD camera greatly benefited from these early lessons. \nI enjoy photographing all astronomical subjects but perhaps my favourites are galaxies\, especially peculiarly shaped ones or distant galaxy clusters\, or those engaged in dramatic mergers such as the famous pair of Antennae galaxies. I enjoy taking images that are unusual\, either being of a rarely imaged object\, or perhaps a familiar object presented in a new way. Among my images you will find exotic objects like the circumstellar disc of Beta Pictoris\, gravitational lenses\, quasars\, distant galaxy clusters and extragalactic globulars. I find that these obscure targets often have a very interesting story to tell. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/monthly-meeting-april/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:Astrophotography Group
DESCRIPTION:Joe Nidd from Dunedin will be with us via teams. He will discuss his astro-photographjy setup\, a bit of the background that got him to identifying the need for what he has built. He will then go through the build and use in a bit of detail and show us some of his resulting images.\n \nShaun
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/astrophotography-group/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Astrophotography Group
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SUMMARY:Practical Astronomy April
DESCRIPTION:Telescopes and Accessories. \nAlong with a short introduction on how telescopes work\, this meeting will discuss some of the common types of telescopes used by amateur astronomers. We will then look at accessories combined with telescopes for visual observing. \n 
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/practical-astronomy-april/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Practical Astronomy
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SUMMARY:Special General Meeting of the Auckland Astronomical Society
DESCRIPTION:Notice of Special General Meeting \nThe Auckland Astronomical Society Council have called for a Special General\nMeeting to be held at 19:45 on Monday 26 th April at the Stardome Observatory\nand Planetarium. This is immediately prior to the 2021 Annual General Meeting. \nSpecial General Meeting Agenda \n1. AAS Rule change approval.\nThe current rule 25 is as follows: \n“25. The Council may invest and re-invest the whole or any part of the funds of\nthe Society which are not required for immediate business in interest-bearing\ngovernment or trading bank investments registered with the Reserve Bank of\nNew Zealand.” \nThe AAS Council propose replacing this rule as follows: \n“25. The Council may invest the funds of the Society which are not required for\nimmediate business in Government stock or debentures\, a community founda-\ntion\, or trading bank interest-bearing investments\, managed investment\nschemes\, portfolio investment entities\, or investments of similar nature\, as the\nCouncil may from time to time think fit.” \nThe reason for this proposal is the low level of return of interest bearing invest-\nments. The society funds can be invested for better returns without incurring\nundue risk. \nThe current AAS rules are available at the link below:\nhttps://cloud.astronomy.org.nz/index.php/s/p3WZNz3mZPqExAP \n2. The AAS Assent to the Proposed Auckland Observatory and Plane-\ntarium Trust Deed Changes as specified below. \nThe current Trust Deed specifies that the Auckland Astronomical Society Presi-\ndent and Treasurer are ex-officio Trustees of the Auckland Observatory and\nPlanetarium Trust. The AAS Council requested the AOPTB to prepare an alter-\nation to the Trust Deed granting the Society the power to appoint an alterna-\ntive Trustee instead of the AAS Treasurer. The Trust board agreed to this and\nhave also taken the opportunity to propose some other minor alterations to the\nDeed prepared by the law firm Simspon Grierson. \nThe proposed changes: \nThe key update implemented by these documents is to clause 3 of the sched-\nule to the Trust Deed – designed to permit AAS to appoint any individual (as op-\nposed to the treasurer) as a trustee.\nAlthough SG has not reviewed all of the other details of the schedule\, we have\nsuggested some further changes to the schedule as follows: \n1.\nUpdates to clause 8 of the schedule to refer to current legislation\nrelating to ineligibility to hold office as a trustee of a trust and to act as an offi-\ncer of a registered charity.\n2.\nAffirming the replacement of clauses 16 and 17 of the schedule\,\nwhich were purportedly replaced pursuant to an amendment dated 30 June\n2009 filed with the Companies Office (but not filed on the Charities Register).\nThe purported amendment in 2009 changed the Trust’s balance date to 30\nJune (which we have put in clause 17) and provided for Trust Board annual\nmeetings to be held in September each year (see clause 16).\n3.\nExpanding clause 16 of the schedule to expressly provide for Trust\nBoard meetings to be held by means of audio or audio and visual communica-\ntion. This type of provision is typically included in modern trust deeds to pro-\nvide flexibility.\n4.\nExpanding clause 19 to deal\, not only with the use of the Trust\nBoard’s seal\, but also the wider issue of executing deeds and signing/assenting\nto contracts etc. The clause is intended to reflect related provisions in s19 of\nthe Charitable Trusts Act 1957 and the s13 of the Property Law Act 2007\, and\nshould also assist with the issue that we have come across regarding the full\nTrust Board not having to sign off/approve the Trust Board’s receipt of dona-\ntions.\nThe proposed wording of clause 3:\n(a) the President of the Society for the time being\, who shall be a trustee by\nvirtue of their office in the said Society and shall upon ceasing to hold such of-\nfice cease to be a Trustee and shall be succeeded as a Trustee by their succes-\nsor.\n(b) an individual appointed as a Trustee by the Society (acting in accordance\nwith the rules of the Society) and notified in writing by the Society to the Trust\nBoard (and any such Trustee may be removed by the Society in the same man-\nner). \nThe full proposed Deed of variation is available below: \nhttps://cloud.astronomy.org.nz/index.php/s/J2FraEGZcJNTqDD
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/special-general-meeting-of-the-auckland-astronomical-society/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:SGM
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SUMMARY:2021 Annual General Meeting of the Auckland Astronomical Society
DESCRIPTION:Notice of Annual General Meeting \nThe Annual General Meeting of the Auckland Astronomical Society Inc. will be held at the Stardome Observatory\, One Tree Hill Domain\, on Monday 26th April 2021 starting at 8pm. \nAll Society members are encouraged to attend and help with the future of  the Society. The agenda and a copy of the reports will be posted prior to the meeting. Printed copies will also be distributed at the meeting. Nominations are open for all council positions; President\, Vice President\, Treasurer\, Secretary\, Librarian\, Curator of Instruments\, Editor and three to five council members and also the position of the AAS representative on the Auckland Observatory and Planetarium Trust Board Selection Committee. Nominations must be received by the Secretary by Monday 12th April 2021 and must be made using the form below.Note nominees\, nominators and seconders must be current financial members. Any questions or enquires can be directed to Bill Thomas (President) by email to president@astronomy.org.nz or phone 09478 4874. \nNomination form:  Notice with Nomination Form
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/2021-annual-general-meeting-of-the-auckland-astronomical-society/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
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