Come stare at Te Rā, the sun – safely! A large projection of the sun from solar telescopes in Dunedin, Dresden, and outer space is beaming in to warm up your winter. Check here for times of public discussions on astrophysics, energy, ecologies, and cosmologies – everyone is welcome.
3.30pm — 9.30pm daily
degrees Celsius
earths fit inside the sun
days for one rotation
Sun-side chats and whizz-bang weekends
Ian Griffin, Director of Otago Museum and amateur astronomer extraordinaire, discusses his own fascinations with stars—their physics, scales and the wider contexts of the fiery maelstrom that is our star.
Join us for a free session of sun salutations taught by Josh Smith. Come and salute the sun! Move your body with rhythms as old as the creation of the universe itself, as we bring down this contemplation of the centre of all life and energy in our solar system and embody an appreciation for this most epic of heavenly entities. BYO mat, and bring a spare mat if you have one to share.
Sunroom host: Connor Boyle.
Come and join us to farewell the Dresden sun and thank those that have provided it to us. Local sound artists involved in the Sunroom project will perform including Connor Boyle with Peter Claman and friends, and Sally Ann McIntyre.
A discussion of space weather and how energy flows from the sun impact the environment on and around the Earth—including the recent auroras and the larger solar storms which hold the potential to destroy our digital communication infrastructures.
Join us for an informal bi-cultural discussion between Rua McCallum, a researcher exploring creation narratives as part of her PhD, and quantum physicist David Hutchinson. An ongoing conversation, born from a position of love and respect.
Come enjoy an amazing interactive science show about the sun! Hold with your own hands the gases that make our star. Make a comet that will behave as explosively as a real comet approaching the sun! Experience the power of ultraviolet light and discover why using sun block in New Zealand is so important.
Further thanks go to: Astroclub Radebeul, NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON), Otago University, Julian Priest, Morgan Oliver, Michael Morley, Sally Ann McIntyre, Alastair Galbraith, Matt de Gennaro. The project has been supported by GigCity Community Fund through Letting Space’s Urban Dream Brokerage service with funding from Dunedin City Council. Image: Hydrogen alpha solar telescope image test by Stu Todd and Mirko Harnisch of Dunedin Astronomical Society, 22 August 2016 at Beverly-Begg Observatory, Dunedin.
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