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By this time next year we would have already celebrated our very first Matariki holiday in New Zealand. Stardome astronomy educator and astro-photographer Josh Kirkley joins the show to discuss the significance of Matariki, how to find the impressive star cluster in the night sky, and what Maori astronomers, or tohunga, used to take from the brightness of the stars during Matariki.
Matariki star cluster from southern hemisphere
Photo: NASA
While Matariki was important for how Pacific people navigated the seas long before New Zealand was settled, it still plays a prominent role today, he said. Astronomy in general . it s been a really important indicator of the changing of the seasons, the tides and all those things.