Thanks to a collaboration with my friend Stephen Voss, we present this composite image, taken over 3 nights last week. With Dunedin's Mount Cargill Tower as foreground, It shows the change in altitude of the sun over 3 nights caused by Earth's axial tilt and our motion around our parent star. It also shows the rotation of the sun over 3 Earth days (look at the sunspots and how they change position). Photos by me, processing by Stephen Voss. I love collaborations! #astronomy#NewZealand#sunset
Just because I have nearly 4000 images taken during Friday night's auroral display, I keep going back to look at them. Here's a 6 second exposure taken at 23:09 local time here in New Zealand. The sky was ablaze! #aurora#beauty#newzealand
OK... drumroll... In the run up to midnight on New Year's Eve here in Aotearoa, here's #1 in #ianstop102023 Literally the most beautiful moment of the year. A night I will never forget when I told Mrs. G at sunset "see you in a couple of hours" and ended up coming home after sunrise after a gobsmackingly beautiful aurora show. For 10 seconds at 01:41 on 28th February 2023 my heart sang. Let's hope everyone's heart sings in 2024! Happy New Year Everyone! #beauty#aurora#NewZealand
When I was in Wellington, New Zealand, I was entranced by their unusual crosswalk icons. I asked my new friends there about them. I was told a story about a drag performer and activist by the name of Carmen Rupe. She was a trans woman who was also Māori (native people of NZ).
Simply astonishing night of aurora here in the Deep South of New Zealand. Best display I have ever seen since moving here! Epic #aurora#beauty#NewZealand
So here it is. My first ever 8x10 pinhole camera image taken on an. ISO glass plate yesterday for world pinhole photography day. This is a 4 hour exposure of the sun's path on 30th April 2023 as seen from my deck in Portobello Dunedin New Zealand. Developed under a safelight using adonal at a 1:50 dilution. #pinholephotography#NewZealand
So here's what happens when you "unfisheye" a picture of a coronal aurora taken through a fisheye lens. Taken at 1:23am on 2nd December from the Otago Peninsula #aurora#auroraustralis#NewZealand
There are moments when you have to say, Mother nature is awesome. One such moment occurred at Lake Aviemore last night at 02:25:45. This is three five second exposures combined to make a panorama. WOW! #aurora#auroraaustralis#beauty#NewZealand
Now the climate crisis is self-evident, a common argument by those who STILL defend polluters is that “NZ is too small to make a difference, and so shouldn’t have to stop intensive dairy farming or driving Ford rangers to school in Auckland”
Quasiment jamais j'ai posté un truc politique. Mais là c'est incroyablement puissant, inspirant, hypnotisant ...🥰
La plus jeune députée du parlement néo-zélandais, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, 21 ans, élue avec la bannière du parti Māori, a interprété un chant traditionnel autochtone (similaire au haka des All Blacks 🏉) aussitôt repris par une large partie de l'assemblée, pour dénoncer la politique raciste du nouveau gouvernement de droite, et appeler les Māoris à la lutte !
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
The nights when the southern cross reflects perfectly from Hoopers Inlet while a pastel aurora gently does its thing in the background ARE THE BEST NIGHTS. That is all. #beauty#auroraaustralis#NewZealand
If anyone can point me in any direction, to help me, thanks.
Discovered my American whaler ancestor had children with a Maori woman. He was based at Kapiti.1835-1842. Her name was Nani, their son Tamati. There was a daughter too. Their descendants will carry the blue eye gene. I don't know what happened to them. I would like to find descendants of this whanau and share stories.
Perhaps #Waikato, #Kawhia. #whakapapa#NewZealand#Maori#Kapiti#TeRauparaha#history#genealogy
The night of 28th February 2023 was filled by an awesome aurora which just kept delighting those of us lucky enough to be watching. This panorama was taken at 1:19am. It is easy on nights like this to see why local Iwi Kai Tahi call the aurora "Ngā kahukura o hinenuitepō" which translates to the rainbow of the goddess of the night" What a night! #aurora#auroraaustralis#NewZealand
One of the truly remarkable things about "The Mother's Day Aurora" was that, here in New Zealand, we tend to see the aurora low in the southern sky. Not this time! This was the view looking NORTH at 7:58pm! The whole sky was green! #aurora#NewZealand#beauty
Ok this is a bit of a bodge but I made a timelapse of last night's moonrise showing the atmospheric refraction and the omega moon! it's pretty cool despite the compression! #moon#moonrise#NewZealand
The attraction of refraction can be a distraction.The work in progress continues. A few frames from the epic moonrise last Thursday night (31st August). As the moon rose over the southern ocean, Earth's atmosphere beguiled and fascinated. Light from the moon journeyed a complex path to my eyes and it was amazing! #moon#refraction#astronomy#NewZealand
This was taken at 21:35 last night (21st Oct) during astronomical twilight from Hoopers Inlet. Sony A7S2 camera with canon 16-35mm f/2.8 lens ISO 3200. Some nice colur from the twilight and the sunlight still illuminating the high beams making them look lovely! #astronomy#NewZealand#aurora#auroraaustralis
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
**William Butler Yeates
Tech companies are scraping the web to develop AI tools they promise can do everything — including understanding Indigenous languages. But that’s not true.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Keoni Mahelona about how capturing Indigenous language data is another form of colonialism, and how Te Hiku is taking a very different approach with the Māori language in Aotearoa New Zealand.