Good Heavens

19/06/2026

18/06/2026

Book an experience with Good Heavens under one of the darkest skies, in a world of peace an quiet. ✨️

On Aotea Great Barrier Island there is no city glow, just pristine beaches and forested hills. 🌊

A stargazing trip to Aotea is a perfect chance to slow down. 🐌

Our getaway packages include
* flights
* accommodation
* stargazing
* 4wd rental car
* optional extras 🤩

18/06/2026

Winter stargazing on Aotea Great Barrier Island- When the Universe feels close enough to touch! 🌌

Aotea is home to one of the world's rare Dark Sky Sanctuaries, offering skies so pristine, they're usually found days from civilisation. Yet, here, you're only a 30-minute flight from Auckland! 🛩

What's more, Good Heavens will book your flights and your accommodation for you. ✨️

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15/06/2026

Almost as good as Netflix... 🤩

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08/06/2026

Read about the sibling rivalry just outside our galaxy. 🤩

Trouble near the Milky Way: The Large Magellanic Cloud is ripping its smaller neighbor galaxy apart | Space https://share.google/BLJT7s7VLA4KOtxvG

And check in with us if you want to be guided to these stunning clouds... visible in the southern hemisphere sky. ✨️

In the gravitational tug of war between the dwarf galaxy siblings, it's the Small Magellanic Cloud that's losing.

04/06/2026

The Good Heavens team enjoyed some professional development with professor Brian Cox in Auckland last night.

Beautiful imagery, a captivating narrative and a life feed from the ISS via de SEN website took us on a journey through our universe touching on subjects like spectography, Jupiter’s Moons and the elements that are crucial to life.

And, did you know astronomers expect there is less than one other? civilisation per galaxy on average?

04/06/2026

While we're probably going to be out of Aurora luck with the current cloud forecast for Aotea Great Barrier Island tonight, elsewhere in NZ you may be more lucky. Wishing clear skies! 🤩

31/05/2026

Antares (or Rehua in Maori) is playing hide and seek the evening of 31 May. Antares is a super-giant red star, around 700 times the size of our Sun, but as it's far far away, around 550 light-years, it appears much smaller than our Moon. It's red as it's cooling down, while it's burned through most of it fuel and coming to the end of its life.

Astronomy, NOW! 👀

Eastern Australia and New Zealand dwellers enjoy an occultation of Antares by the Full Moon on 31 May.

From Wellington, New Zealand, Antares moves behind the Moon at 19:35 NZST, reappearing at 20:41.

📷 Credit: Astronomy Now/Greg Smye-Rumsby

29/05/2026

We love winter evenings! 🤩️ With the core of the Milky Way high up in the sky till the end of September and darkness falling early it's a magical time to look up and get lost in the stars. ✨️