Wellington's main railway station. I took this photo exactly three years ago today, 11 May 2021, on my visit to New Zealand during the temporary pandemic-era "travel bubble" which existed between Australia and NZ.
If the sky is dark where you are GO OUT NOW AND WATCH AN AMAZING AURORA!!! Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere get out now! Clouds marred the view before dawn at Hoopers Inlet in Dunedin NZ but the aurora was still incredible! #aurora#auroraaustralis#NewZealand
Another image from this morning's flight twixt Dunedin and Wellington. My IR camera was cutting through the haze like a knife through butter. Look at the mountains! Look at the river! Look at the land. Magical! #IRphotography#NewZealand
This is a final reminder that I'm giving a talk at 6 p.m. tonight about some recent astronomy antics. It is at The Royal Society Te apārangi HQ in Thorndon, and admission is free. There may be lots of pictures of the aurora. #aurora#NewZealand#astronomy
Lol. When at Dunedin Airport I always visit the only one of my pictures on public display. It is in the male throne room in departures :-) #art#publicart#astronomy#newzealand#toilet
Over the course of an hour on Saturday evening, I took a series of images of Comet Pons-Brooks. Every single image had several satellite trails from Musk's cosmic vermin. Here's the movie Thanks Starlink! #notostarlink#darksky#astronomy#NewZealand
Wellingtonians, I'm talking tomorrow night about my latest astronomy adventures. 6 pm at The Royal Society Te Apārangi in Thorndon. Admission is free! #astronomy#NewZealand
Here is another picture of Comet Pons Brooks from last night. This was taken by merging/median combining 35 images taken using a 93mm refractor to remove the shitty Starlink satellites. The ion and dust tails from the comet are clearly visible as is its green coma! #astronomy#NewZealand#comet#cometponsbrooks
Chatting with a visiting Kiwi author, Rachael King, in the bookshop today, she recognised me - turned out I had chaired her fellow Kiwi scribe at @edbookfest a few years ago, and she remembered me!
It really is a small planet (especially the literary part of it!)....
I've just discovered (should be Sir) Roy Kerr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kerr) , #NewZealand mathematician famous for his solution for rotating black holes published a paper last month which showed #singularities do not have to exist in a #BlackHole, at least not how the 2020 Nobel prize winner Sir Roger Penrose described. For #Physics this is a huge deal. For #NewZealand media it wasn't worth a mention. But, here is a description of what he's done if you are game. https://flip.it/iwDh4a