Star Safari

Star Safari Stargazing in Wairarapa. Visit our Carterton Observatory, Star Safari for dark skies & big telescopes. Hot chocolate served with every ticket bought
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We are Hari and Sam, an astrobiologist and an astrophysicist and look forward to showing you our night sky.

All our posts are created by humans, generally the two in the picture. We don’t use AI to create our pictures or constru...
27/07/2025

All our posts are created by humans, generally the two in the picture. We don’t use AI to create our pictures or construct the text in posts, we take our own pictures and write our own words (not always the best grammar and spelling). We think human generated content is valuable and builds a connection with our audience. Clear Skies from us at Star Safari!

27/07/2025

The Moon is back in our evening sky! 6.6% illumination and 384,000 km away. My carefully held phone looking through one of our telescopes captured this just now.

Star trails looking south tonight at Star Safari.
26/07/2025

Star trails looking south tonight at Star Safari.

Snapped this just now at Star Safari Observatory, the Magellanic Clouds and a Meteor!
26/07/2025

Snapped this just now at Star Safari Observatory, the Magellanic Clouds and a Meteor!

A bit of rain over there!
20/07/2025

A bit of rain over there!

A Sundog greeted us on our way back to Carterton today
18/07/2025

A Sundog greeted us on our way back to Carterton today

We’ve been testing our new telescope, the Muon Detector, heaps over the last week and have developed this display for it...
17/07/2025

We’ve been testing our new telescope, the Muon Detector, heaps over the last week and have developed this display for it. This was run over last night showing an average rate of just over 3 events per second. Yay for Muons!

This is a muon detector, our latest sensor at Star Safari Observatory. Muons are subatomic particles that are a decay pr...
11/07/2025

This is a muon detector, our latest sensor at Star Safari Observatory. Muons are subatomic particles that are a decay product of cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere.

This is the Moon last night at Star Safari taken through one of our 405mm reflectors with my phone. It’s almost full at ...
10/07/2025

This is the Moon last night at Star Safari taken through one of our 405mm reflectors with my phone. It’s almost full at 99.5% illumination.

It’s Aphelion Day tomorrow! That’s when we are further from the Sun than at any other time during the year. The exact ti...
03/07/2025

It’s Aphelion Day tomorrow! That’s when we are further from the Sun than at any other time during the year. The exact time is at 7:54am tomorrow morning (4 July) and we will be 152,087,738km from the Sun. That’s 4,984,052km further away than we were on 5 January, when we were at perihelion. That info is from timeanddate.com and the picture below is of the Sun a few days ago using Slooh’s solar telescope in the Canary Islands.

Fantastic to host Mount Maunganui College at Star Safari Observatory. We had an awesome night with an amazing sky and a ...
01/07/2025

Fantastic to host Mount Maunganui College at Star Safari Observatory. We had an awesome night with an amazing sky and a great opportunity to share Wairarapa’s stunning sky with New Zealand’s future scientists, engineers and astronauts!

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Masterton
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