YSPACE with Star Safari

Haleakalā in Maui is home of some of the great survey telescopes. Hari and Sam together with 23 students from Mount Maunganui College and their two teachers, went to visit the telescopes, hosted by astronomers at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii.

Here we talk about our visit and the telescopes we saw there, including Pan-STARRS, Las Cumbres telescopes, Atlas (which previously discovered SN2024ggi - which we took photos of from Star Safari).

We look at what's in the sky in February and what you see when you're stargazing.

A tour of our favourite celestial objects in the night sky that you can see in May and June 2021 from Wairarapa, New Zealand one of the darkest places in the world, where the Milky Way stretches from one horizon to the other. 

A favourite this month, quasar 3C - 273 and other space oddities, Omega Centauri, Gem Cluster, Eta Carinae. Scorpius is rising and Orion is slowly disappearing. Brightest stars, when to avoid the Moon and why and what did the ancient Egyptians think of the circumpolar stars. 

Clear skies and enjoy