Astronomy in New Zealand NZ

all about astronomy in New Zealand, by Paul Moss.



Wellington South Coast - Te Rae Kai Hau Point at Night - Leave this beautiful place just as it is, awesome...

All about the SKY in New Zealand

cheers all... Paul Moss

Paul Moss Web Presence History and Future

Paul Moss Web Presence History and Future

keywords: Paul Moss and Aurora Australis, Sky, Astronomy, Dark, Skies, Music, Images, Rakiura, Wellington, NZ, New Zealand, Map, Maps, Mapping, Demographics, Census, Direct, Marketing, Geocoding, Geodemographics, Art, Artist, Data, Database, datamining, thematic, colour, analysis, analytics.

Is been of interest to me to examine and play with web presence and search engines to try and comprehend what its all about and try and guess some of the mechanisms involved. My friends think I crazy but I was inspired by that dream in the '90s of becoming wealthly via the web and wondered how it works... it appeared to be the ultimate sales tool but for me it offered the opportunity to share my passion and images of aurora australis with a large number of world citizens.

Noticing that Blogger is ranking highly and my blogs have climbed my google results for Paul Moss I have made this blog to let you all know what i am up to in this area. Of course I am up to lots in all sorts of areas and this is relatively monior, but is a core interest that i have let go of for a while, but it seems to take care of itself....

cheers all.. see what happens next.. all in good fun with my tongue definitely in my cheek..Paul moss... moza//

A fresh new gallery of images taken by Ray Ching and Paul Moss 31st May 2007 are posted at the GADOT website Gallery #13, and #14.

go here: www.gadot.org.nz


I have created two galleries: the first, gallery 13, is the standard 300 pixel thumbnail linked to it's 1024 pixel larger image, which are stunning. The thumbnail is often a bit drab as its the whole pic shrunk.

The second gallery, number 14 is a bit special; The 300 pixel thumbs are cropped directly from the original and are often 600pixel but resized by the browser so they are full of detail, and the linked enlargements are full size originals although some are cropped and adjusted for brightness and contrast.

The point is to make available some real life experiences for children, and others, to be able to scan around a HUGE pic and see what its really like in those rock pools, even closer than the human eye at the site. Almost a microscope in fact. A universe full of wonder and delights.. an awesome experience. A marine education exercise.

The images are large enough to print large for decoration or education, you choose. Enjoy!!!

Paul Moss..
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Te Rae Kai Hau Point Wellington New Zealand

This is my first blog about Te Rae Kai Hau Point (aka Te Raekaihau Point). This location is under threat to development, and is fiercly opposed by a numebr of individuals and groups, full information is available at http://www.gadot.org.nz and more at http://www.sky.org.nz and even more at http://www.savethepoint.org.nz . As the dark sky is my personal concern, and shared by many worldwide. The dark sky is under threat at this location and I have worked very hard to show as many people as possible that this development is simply a dumb idea. Some of the components of the idea are awesome and could be implemented at other locations where they would be much more appropriately deployed.

Read Bryan Pepperell's blog about this, from a City Councillors point of view, and remember this is a Wellington City Council supported project, mostly for tourism income stream for the city, but 'wrapped' in educational terms and said to be 'for the greater good of the nation' but actually destroying some environment in the process and destroying the current educational process at that site.

I personally researched much of the information available and delved deeply into the process that I found to be seriously flawed in so many ways; I presented my results both graphically and in text and spoken word to the second resource consent hearing on 3 occassions. I spoke on behalf of the Wellington Astronomical Society (http://www.was.org.nz) and Sharing Space (http://www.astronomy.net.nz) and requested no increase in light at all; an advisory was added to the consent as a direct result of that objection. read the wcc pdf.

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The astronomical community in Wellington have only one suitable dark sky place left to view the sky, especially if they wish to observe to the south - like the aurora australis. That is Te Raekaihau Point. Euan McQueen, chair of the resource consent hearing relating to the proposed aquarium, said that he had heard many requests for light, but this was his first for darkness. Abridged, from George Jones, RSNZ Wellington Branch email list newsletter, 13 April 2007.

"261. The Commissioners heard submissions about the particular value of the site, with a near total lack of reflected light, for astronomical observations when weather conditions are suitable. It was noted that there are very few sites in urban Wellington where there is no intrusion of artificial light or reflected light, which gives Te Raekaihau Point a status of rarity for such observations.

262. This is noted as a more than minor effect with regard to the astronomical society. However, during the applicants right of reply they said that this could be mitigated at observation times by use of shutters and reducing lights. The Commissioners have added an advisory note that the applicant liaise with the astronomical society in this regard." note complete consent text available at http://www.wcc.govt.nz ""

Add your comment here to this blog or directly to the wikipedia article here: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Raekaihau_Point

cheers all... great to be of service to you on this critical issue to our environment and health.

paul moss moza//

Paul Moss

This is the first blog at this site