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Stonehenge Aotearoa

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March, Saturday the 20th – Autumn Equinox and the Harvest Moon

Posted on February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 by Richard Hall in Events at Stonehenge

Join us to celebrate and ancient important day of the year -- the equinox, marking the Harvest festival and marking the change in seasons.

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Tamanui Te Ra’s wives

Posted on June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 by Kay Leather in Astronomy

The Sun seems to move quickly at equinoxes and slow at solstices. Māori believed that it was because of the two stars, Sirius and Antares.

Tagged equinox, HIne Raumati, Hine Takurua, Maori, solstice, Sun, Tamanui Te ra, The Sun1 Comment

Dance of the Seven Veils

Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 by Richard Hall in Astronomy

The true meaning behind the story of the dance of the seven veils.

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The Winter Solstice

Posted on June 2, 2020June 17, 2020 by Richard Hall in Astronomy

Solstice means the sun standing still. It is the day upon which the sun rises and sets at its most distant point on the horizon north or south of due east or due west. The two solstices are also the days with the longest and shortest hours of daylight.

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We are an open-air astronomical observatory built following ancient knowledge of the stone circles and adapted to the conditions of New Zealand.

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