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SUMMARY:Introduction to Astronomy May 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Search for Earth 2.0\nOrigins\, Conditions & Signatures of Life\nIn this follow-up lecture on exoplanets\, Chris Benton will focus on the exciting quest for extraterrestrial life on planets beyond our Solar System. We will discuss what life is\, what conditions life requires\, and how and where life may have started and evolved on Earth before reviewing what types of exoplanets could potentially harbour life and the biosignatures of life in their atmospheres. Come along and join in discussing these and other stimulating questions of astrobiology! \nAll attendees receive a comprehensive six-page handout.
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/introduction-to-astronomy-may-2025/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
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SUMMARY:Emerging Astronomers Group - May
DESCRIPTION:Topic TBA
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/emerging-astronomers-group-may/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Young Astronomers
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SUMMARY:Film Night May 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Star by HG Wells.\n \nWhile it is fiction\, it’s Astronomical SF of the very best sort\, set in the late 19th Century\, when our understanding of multi-body dynamics was getting very good. The animations are made using AI\, which is no bad thing – the enthusiasts created it saved a fortune in animating it that way.\n \nThen\, this will be followed by Gliese 710 and its expected entry into the Solar System millennia from now.\nA short slide show of nearby stars\, just to get a grip on what’s in the Local Fluff.\n 
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/film-night-may-2025/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:AAS Meetings,Film Night
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SUMMARY:Pratical Astronomy May - Introduction to Astrophotography
DESCRIPTION:This talk will cover the basics for getting started with Astrophotography\, including cameras\, mounts\, optics and image processing
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/pratical-astronomy-may-introduction-to-astrophotography/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:AAS Meetings,Practical Astronomy
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SUMMARY:Monthly Meeting May - The search for Takapō Meteorite
DESCRIPTION:The search and finding of the Takapō Meteorite and what we have since learnt about it. And Fireballs Aotearoa’s activities over the last year including the search for the Mahoe Meteorite. \n  \nSteve Wyn-Harris is a sheep and beef farmer in Central Hawkes Bay. He wrote a weekly national rural column for nearly three decades and has been a broadcaster for as long. He is on the executive of Fireballs Aotearoa\, the meteorite search co-ordinator and media liaison for the organization. In 2023 he was awarded an ONZM for services to farming and rural communities. \n  \nSteve has also published a children’s book:  ‘The Day I Crashed to Earth’ (target audience 5-13) about the finding of the Takapō Meteorite and for $20 anyone is welcome to a copy!
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/monthly-meeting-may-the-search-for-takapo-meteorite/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory & Planetarium\, 670 Manukau Road\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345
CATEGORIES:AAS Meetings,Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:2025 Beatrice Hill-Tinsley Lecture - How Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we do astronomy
DESCRIPTION:The AAS is co-hosting with the University of Auckland Faculty of Science\, one of the lectures of the 2025 Beactrice Hill-Tinsley Lecture Series. \nHow Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we do astronomy – and why that’s not necessarily a bad thing. \n \nThis is a free lecture but booking tickets is essential otherwise you might miss out. \nhttps://BeatriceHillTinsley.eventbrite.co.nz \nAnna is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and one of the five inaugural AI Fellows of the UK’s Alan Turing Institute. Previously she has worked at the University of Southampton\, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree from the University of Bristol. \nShe is part of a team working on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio-telescope\, and she led the design of the computing and storage for the European SKA Regional Centre. She is currently the UK representative to the International Union of Radio Sciences for Radio Astronomy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Astronomical Society’s Techniques & Instruments (RASTI) journal. \nIn 2014\, Anna was honoured by the World Economic Forum as one of thirty scientists under the age of 40 selected for their contributions to advancing the frontiers of science\, engineering or technology in areas of high societal impact. In 2017 she was awarded the Blaauw Chair in Astrophysics (prize chair) at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands for excellence in research\, broad knowledge of astronomy and an outstanding international status in astronomy. In 2019\, Anna received the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society\, awarded for outstanding invention\, improvement\, or development of astronomical instrumentation or techniques. \nLecture Trust Home Page: \nhttps://www.rasnz.org.nz/rasnz-info/rasnz-lecture-trust-bht-1 \n  \n 
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/2025-beatrice-hill-tinsley-lecture-how-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-the-way-we-do-astronomy/
LOCATION:University of Auckland – Physics Lecture Theatre 1\, PLT1/303-G20\, Science Centre\, 38 Princes St\, Auckland\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:BHT Lecture
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