How to find Te Waka O Tama Rereti
November is when Te Waka O Tamarereti is visible in the night sky in New Zealand. Here is how to find it.
November is when Te Waka O Tamarereti is visible in the night sky in New Zealand. Here is how to find it.
Where exactly am I looking to find Matariki in the night sky?
Six questions that drive us nuts because we are asked these constantly. So here’s our different takes on the possible answers.
As the waka entered the sky, Tama Rereti began to scatter the luminescent stones and pebbles in all directions as he went along. The wake of the canoe became the Milky Way and the stones and pebbles became its stars.
This is why we have stars in the sky.
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.
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