“Any photographer that has a question that needs an answer can use PhotoPills. Beginners use it to find sunrise and set times, golden hour and blue hour times and for basic calculations like depth of field. Then we have the photographers that plan their Sun, Moon and Milky Way shots… it all depends on your needs.”
This month is fantastic for viewing Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. Pluto is also in a good position to spot, though at a visual magnitude of
A very short story of astronomy at the top of the cable car, where we still operate. Source: Time Balls, Kings & Telescopes
“if they can wake up at 4 am to watch a rugby game I can wake up at 4:30 am to watch the NASA press conference”. – Kathy Campbell
Source: NASA’s Spaceward Bound Visits New Zealand
i. Haritina Mogosanu Martian Since 10/8/2014 (with this company but really I first went there with Curiosity) 297,865,305 Points Earned http://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/insight/?action=getcert&e=1&pid=3&cn=503001924663
was our chief scientist at Spaceward Bound New Zealand. Check out a bit about her astrobiology work here. Professor Kathy Campbell – Life and Environment.
Hello and welcome! I am an astrobiologist and a science communicator about all things space-related, but especially human space exploration, astrobiology and astronomy. I work
I don’t know who made this pic but a friend of mine sent it to me one day. It took me a long time to figure out how to cross my eyes and see things in perspective but I managed to do it in the end and the result was spectacular … 🙂
“Every Microcosm, every inhabited region, has a Centre; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all.”
Mircea Eliade
“People believe they can simply go to Mars, pull out some inflatable greenhouses and start living there in happiness and plenty of oxygen… well, I don’t really think it works like that!”
There is a Milky Way Kiwi at the heart of all of us!
A MILKY WAY KIWI IS SOMEONE WHO SHOWS UP TO LIVE IN THE FUTURE. A BIT WILD, VERY CURIOUS, A MILKY WAY KIWI CHOOSES LIFE AND CARES ABOUT IT. IT KNOWS THAT HE OR SHE IS MADE OF STARDUST. AND BECAUSE OF THAT EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN LIFE. WE ARE BEAUTIFUL, BRIGHT AND ETERNAL, JUST LIKE THE STARS.
Finding directions from the stars has never been easier. In the modern times, everyone has a phone app. However, there are some old tricks just
I could never quite grasp November, never understood the point of it being there. Feeling too cold and too hot in the same time… my senses definitely refused to multitask. Then, eons later when I discovered Wellington with its famous five seasons in one day: spring, summer, autumn, winter and Monsoon, November felt less incomprehensible.
Today at 2:31 PM NZST all Wellingtonians stopped working and instead, instantly occupied the space “under the tables for all the wrong reasons”. Immediately after that, in a perfect orchestration, everyone vacated their working places! Wellington’s CBD suddenly become alive as people started their silent march down the hill – since nobody could talk on the phone due to the network overload! Why down the hill nobody knows but fact is that the entire working force of Wellington acted in solidarity, for once, today, in a new type of strike … the strike slip!!
Recently published research has demonstrated that the expansion of the universe and black holes may be linked.
Stardate South Island was held 17-19 Feb 2023 at Staveley, near Christchurch. It was a fantastic weekend and you can read all about it here.
Venus doesn’t capture a lot of press time as it’s often overshadowed by the more hospitable Mars and the more photogenic planets of Saturn and Jupiter. It’s not all quiet around Venus, as JAXA has Akatsuki orbiting Earth’s twin and sending back some great images and building our understanding of Venus.
We got AI to describe Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and the results are pretty good. We also got some AI images created.
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