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SUMMARY:Introduction to Astronomy August 2026
DESCRIPTION:Titan: Earth’s Frozen Twin\nGuest speaker: Jonathan Park \nIn many ways\, Saturn’s moon Titan looks uncannily familiar: dunes like those in Earth’s deserts\, mountains\, branching river channels\, rain\, lakes\, and seas. But here\, methane takes the place of water\, and frozen water stands in for solid rock. Beneath Titan’s thick orange haze lies a world near minus 180 °C\, where chemistry\, climate\, and the possibility of life follow entirely different rules. This presentation explores how we get there\, what we find\, and what NASA’s Dragonfly mission hopes to discover when it arrives in the 2030s.
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/introduction-to-astronomy-august-2026/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory\, 670 Manukau Rd\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345\, New Zealand
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SUMMARY:Emerging Astronomers - Is There Life on Venus?
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTim 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).
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/emerging-astronomers-is-there-life-on-venus/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory & Planetarium\, 670 Manukau Road\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345
CATEGORIES:Young Astronomers
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SUMMARY:Monthly Meeting August - Shining a Light on Dark Matter
DESCRIPTION:Carnegie Science Observatories postdoc Andrew Robertson focuses on one of the key mysteries in contemporary astronomy: the nature of dark matter. We know that this mysterious form of matter makes up about 85 percent of the mass in the universe\, but astronomers still don’t know exactly what it is. Drawing on his experience as a former postdoc at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, Robertson will explain how astronomers came to believe that dark matter exists\, and how some gargantuan collisions of galaxy clusters—particularly the famous “Bullet Cluster”—provide some of the strongest supporting evidence for its existence. He’ll demonstrate how these extreme cosmic collisions can be used to probe the fundamental properties of dark matter itself. Dr. Andrew Robertson – Postdoctoral Fellow\, Carnegie Science Observatories. \nThis is a rebroadcast of a Carnegie Science Lecture \n 
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/monthly-meeting-august-shining-a-light-on-dark-matter/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory & Planetarium\, 670 Manukau Road\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345
CATEGORIES:AAS Meetings,Monthly Meeting
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SUMMARY:Practical Astronomy August - An overview of Astronomy software for Amateurs.
DESCRIPTION:This month will be an overview of Astronomy software for amateurs\, particularly Sky Charting software for desktop and mobile.  We will also cover some available options for telescope mount control\, image capture and processing.  
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/practical-astronomy-august-an-overview-of-astronomy-software-for-amateurs/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory & Planetarium\, 670 Manukau Road\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345
CATEGORIES:AAS Meetings,Practical Astronomy
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SUMMARY:Film Night August - The Cosmos revisited 45 Years later - Heaven and Hell
DESCRIPTION:Episode 4: Heaven and Hell\nSubject: Comets\, asteroids\, and impacts (Tunguska\, Venus greenhouse); planetary evolution and catastrophes. 45 Years Later: \n\nChicxulub crater confirmed as dinosaur extinction cause (1980s–1990s); multiple impact threats mapped (NEOWISE\, etc.).\nVenus: confirmed runaway greenhouse; no life but extreme lessons for Earth climate.\nJupiter’s Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact (1994) observed live; DART mission (2022) demonstrated asteroid deflection technology.
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/film-night-august-the-cosmos-revisited-45-years-later-heaven-and-hell/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory & Planetarium\, 670 Manukau Road\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345
CATEGORIES:AAS Meetings,Film Night
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