Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand

Southern Stars

Southern Stars

The Southern Stars is the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand. Southern Stars is published up to 4 times each year and is provided as an electronic version for RASNZ Members or as a printed copy for a price set to cover costs of production.

Earlier versions will be available for download from this page.

December 2022

Some Recent Experiments in Analogue Photography
Ian Griffin .............................................................
Volume 61, number 4. December 2022. p3


Gems of the 'Southern Canon': Jewel Box NGC 4755
Harry Roberts .......................................................
Volume 61, number 4. December 2022. p6


Two Astronomers and Naval Radar
Grahame Fraser ...................................................
Volume 61, number 4. December 2022. p7


Why Does Light Pollution Result in Fewer Stars being Visible?
John Hearnshaw ................................................
Volume 61, number 4. December 2022. p13


RASNZ Dark Sky Awards
David Britten .......................................................
Volume 61, number 4. December 2022. p16


September 2022

William Tobin (1953 - 2022)
John Hearnshaw
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p3


The 2022 RASNZ Conference
Alan Gilmore
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p4


Alan Maxwell (1926–2021): Pioneering New Zealand Radio Astronomer Susan Maxwell Skinner, Wayne Orchiston and
Scott Parkins
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p11


Exotic Spectra: Gamma Velorum
Harry Roberts
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p17


Students With A Passion for Astronomy (SWAPA) 2022
John Hearnshaw and Nick Rattenbury
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p19


Manawatu Matariki
Alan Baldwin
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p21


AR13014: Saga of a ‘Quiet Giant’
Harry Roberts
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p22


Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
Harry Roberts
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p24


Frank Andrews (1938 - 2022)
Compiled by Gordon Hudson
Volume 61, number 3. September 2022. p25


June 2022

Election to Fellowship of the RASNZ - Nalayini Davies
John Hearnshaw, John Drummond, Steve Butler
Volume 61, number 2. June 2022. p3


QZ Carinae - A Complex and Massive Stellar System Stan Walker, with Ed Budding and Mark Blackford . 4 RASNZ Lecture Trust Report for the year 2021
John Hearnshaw ................................................
Volume 61, number 2. June 2022. p10


Astronomy Memories from Times Long Ago
Barrie Ward .........................................................
Volume 61, number 2. June 2022. p11


Some Musings on the Names We Assign Optical Telescopes, & the Changing Nature of the Historic ‘Cooke’ Refractor at Carter Observatory
Wayne Orchiston ...............................................
Volume 61, number 2. June 2022. p14


Missed from the Comet and Meteor Section report for 2021
John Drummond ................................................
Volume 61, number 2. June 2022. p38


March 2022

FRNZAS & FRASNZ Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand

Jennie McCormick MNZM, FRASNZ ...................

Volume 61, number 1. March 2022. p3


Jan Matejko’s Copernicus

William Tobin ......................................................

Volume 61, number 1. March 2022. p13


Solar Cycle 25. “Enigma”

Harry Roberts ....................................................

Volume 61, number 1. March 2022. p20


RASNZ Annual Report of Council 2021 ..............

Volume 61, number 1. March 2022. p24

December 2021

My First Exoplanet

John W. Pickering ................................................

Volume 60, number 4. December 2021. p3


The New Zealand Astronomical Society - the First Fifty Years

John Hearnshaw ..................................................

Volume 60, number 4. December 2021. p5


Book Review

Steve Butler ........................................................

Volume 60, number 4. December 2021. p13


Volume 60 Index ...................................................

Volume 60, number 4. December 2021. p14
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September 2021

The Winchcombe Meteorite - from Mokoia to 2021 and Beyond

Jim Rowe .............................................................

Volume 60, number 3. September 2021. p3


Three Recent Transients of SC25

Harry Roberts ....................................................

Volume 60, number 3. September 2021. p8


The Multidisciplinary Domain of the Astronomers on Cook’s Three Voyages to the Pacific: A New Zealand Perspective

Glen Rowe, Wayne Orchiston ...........................

Volume 60, number 3. September 2021. p10


Subantartic Astronomy

Joseph Roberts .................................................

Volume 60, number 3. September 2021. p19


The Students with a Passion for Astronomy at the 2021 RASNZ conference

John Hearnshaw and Nicholas Rattenbury ......

Volume 60, number 3. September 2021. p25​​​​​​​

June 2021

Leonard Darwin, Edward Sealy and Burnham photography of the Transit of Venus in 1874

William Tobin ........................................................

Volume 60, number 2. June 2021. p3


Astronomy in the Southern Hemisphere Celebrated through Philately

Katrin Raynor-Evans ..........................................

Volume 60, number 2. June 2021. p15


Southland Stardate

R W Evans .........................................................

Volume 60, number 2. June 2021. p18


Comet and Meteor Section Report 2020

John Drummond ................................................

Volume 60, number 2. June 2021. p21


Professional Astronomers Group Report 2020

Nicholas Rattenbury ..........................................

Volume 60, number 2. June 2021. p2

March 2021

Saturn - Jupiter Conjunction

Alan Baldwin ........................................................

Volume 60, number 1. March 2021. p3


Hunting the Great Conjunction

Ashley Pennell .....................................................

Volume 60, number 1. March 2021. p4


Book Review

George Odey ........................................................

Volume 60, number 1. March 2021. p5


Solar Cycle 25: beginnings

Harry Roberts ......................................................

Volume 60, number 1. March 2021. p6


Prominences in Solar Cycle 25

Harry Roberts ......................................................

Volume 60, number 1. March 2021. p7


RASNZ Annual Report of Council for 2020 ..........

Volume 60, number 1. March 2021. p8

December 2020

Ashburton Astronomy Celebrates 50 Years

Alistair Perkins .....................................................

Volume 59, number 4. December 2020. p3


October Solar Observations

Monty Leventhal ...................................................

Volume 59, number 4. December 2020. p5

September 2020

The Kahukura Project

Ian Griffin ..............................................................

Volume 59, number 3. September 2020. p3


The Wai-iti Dark Sky Park

Ralph Bradley ......................................................

Volume 59, number 3. September 2020. p7


The Solar Analemma from Nelson, New Zealand

Ashley Marles ......................................................

Volume 59, number 3. September 2020. p9


The Great Inferior Conjunction of Venus 2020

Mirko Harnisch ....................................................

Volume 59, number 3. September 2020. p11


History of the Lunar Semi-Major Axis

Andrew Clifford ..................................................

Volume 59, number 3. September 2020. p13

June 2020

Denis Sullivan

Paul Chote, Karen Pollard, Joe Trodahl, Phil Yock

Volume 59, number 2. June 2020. p3


NASA Scientist For a Day

R W Evans ...........................................................

Volume 59, number 2. June 2020. p5


BepiColombo Flies By

John Drummond ...................................................

Volume 59, number 2. June 2020. p7


Notes From a Northland Summer

Bob Adam ............................................................

Volume 59, number 2. June 2020. p8


The First Flares of Solar Cyle 25

Harry Roberts ....................................................

Volume 59, number 2. June 2020. p10


Report on Lunar Occultations of Double Stars

Brian Loader ......................................................

Volume 59, number 2. June 2020. p12


An Update on the Student Exoplanet Programme

T Banks, MD Rhodes & E Budding ....................

Volume 59, number 2. June 2020. p17