43 one minute exposures of comet Pons-Brooks were combined to create this image showing the remarkable tail structure. Taken using a 93mm refractor between 7pm and 8pm last night #comet#ponsbrooks#NewZealand
Had to go on a bit of a road trip after work tonight to record comet Pons Brooks. The spikey anti-tail was simply magnificent. What a night! #comet#cometponsbrooks#NewZealand
This report finds "catastrophic" impact for Wellington, #NewZealand, even for an moderate emissions scenario (global warming reaching between 1.7 and 3.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100).
Warming of 1.7C is not moderate, at least for Wellington.
Maybe time for reports to include current impacts, which are starting to become clear.
Over 400 pictures were combined to make this star trail montage taken today between 01:52 and 05:05am. That is how dull I am. I like to watch the Earth rotate. Also am I the only person annoyed that the path is not aligned due South? #Startrails#NewZealand
I had a methane (CH4) filter with me last night, so I took two pictures of Saturn (on a really windy night with dodgy seeing!), one without the filter, and one with it in place. Can you see how the rings are brighter than the planet in methane? Saturn appears dark at this wavelength because methane gas absorbs almost all of the sunlight falling on the atmosphere. However, the icy rings don't absorb sunlight leading to the unusual appearance of Saturn in the image. #saturn#NewZealand
At least #Australia has shown the decency to consider recognising a Palestinian State. The neoliberal racist #NewZealand government’s not even acknowledged the atrocities being committed by Israel in Palestine let alone consider human rights of Palestinians. They are currently trying to dismantle te tiriti o Waitangi. The founding document of Aotearoa NZ. Big protests planned for tomorrow against this corrupt #NZPol government. #ToitūTeTiriti
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New Zealand's SHEPHERDS REIGN Release Official Video For "Ala Mai"
Golden Robot Records announced the signing of the fiery, full-blooded Polynesian metal band, Shepherds Reign, in 2022. Hailing from South Auckland, New Zealand, Polynesian by birth and blood; Filiva’a James (vocals/keytar), Gideon Voon (guitar), Oliver Leupolu (guitar/production), Shaymen Rameka (drums) and Joseph...
🇳🇿"New Zealand is experiencing its highest peak in COVID-19 cases since December 2022, professor Michael Baker says."
"Despite the recommended isolation period now only being 5 days, Baker suggested people still getting a positive Covid-19 test wait to test again on day 6 or 7 before going back into society."
"The biology hasn't changed," Baker said, but there was more pressure for people to go back to work and school."
The Evening Post, 27 May 1924:
WOMEN IN PRINT.
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Patriotic New Zealanders occasionally are shocked by the ignorance of those with whom they come in contact abroad of the whereabouts of the best little country in the world. The training of business men does not always include geography, says the Otago “Daily Times,” but a university should not fall into the crude error revealed in an envelope received in Dunedin. A member of the Otago University staff has been in communication with the University of Geneva, and was pained to receive from that distinguished seat of learning the other day a letter addressed: “University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, U.S.A.” https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240527.2.116
See also Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_of_New_Zealand_from_maps #OnThisDay#OTD#PapersPast#NewZealand#Geography#WhereIsNewZealand
Rightwing NZ government accused of ‘war on nature’ as it takes axe to climate policies (www.theguardian.com)
Government of Christopher Luxon has made sweeping cuts to climate projects in its first budget, with no new significant environmental investments