Observing the night sky: A beginner's guide A course offered through community education, starts next week. https://t.co/pJOPgQnM6G

What a ripper of a day!!! Did you get to see the skies last night? If not you missed the best views in many months - stunning views in that post southerly...

While the cloud tried to spoilt things on Friday we all had a great night and a pleasure to see you all there. Our next event is this coming Friday (3 May)...

Last few tickets remaining for tomorrow nights open night - grab them quick! Weather still looking ok - shhhh! don't talk too loudly! Rob and I will be on...

I don't want to get too excited as this is the weather we are talking about!!! But..... Friday's public open night looks like it just might be a good...

https://t.co/n1NtFXCsIU Just a week till our first open nights of...

Beresheet Orbits Moon Google Lunar X-Prize contender Beresheet is now in Lunar orbit preparing for a landing on the Moon on 11th of April. While the Google Lunar X-Prize is now passed the deadline...

Just a week till summer time ends - I know its gone so quickly but that means just 2 weeks till the first of our winter public open nights! We still have some...

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https://t.co/dYpPMsIwRx Want your own WOW moment? - open nights start on 12 April at CAS. Come and join us for an evening under the stars. Take a look at planets and the moon...

Have you bought your tickets yet? It's just T minus 3 weeks and counting to our first public open night and things are gearing up for our winter season. We...

Just 4 weeks to go to our first open nights of the winter season. I know its gone all too fast but we are excited about this winter. Did you know that this...

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Casmag for March is published

All the offending trees at our observatory are down. Many thanks to all who helped. We have some cleanup to do, and then some planting 🙂.

For those of you who attended the Staveley Star Party, you would have seen a small group of guys with lots of funky imaging cameras down the far end of the field dodging the laser pointers! This...

One of our CAS favourite targets up close as imaged by the spacecraft Juno - amazing looking atmosphere - must be some crazy weather and we get worried by a little old cyclone :)

Members’ unavailability plus weather risk mean that we’ve cancelled tree destruction for today. More next weekend. We have three of the original seven trees left to fell. We asked for a quote to remove cypress...

https://t.co/brgcZ4lZtY A great blog post about our friends at SOFIA - don't worry they will be back in Christchurch soon :)

Can people help with tree destruction tomorrow (Saturday) at 10 am?