1. SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa – by Paul Moss

2. KIA ORA LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND CHILDREN Astronomy Aotearoa

3. MY NAME IS PAUL MOSS Astronomy Aotearoa

4. I AM AN ASTRONOMER SPECIALISING IN ASTRO-ART AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH Astronomy Aotearoa

5. MY PASSION IS CAPTURING AND SHARING BEAUTIFUL, UNUSUAL AND RARE EVENTS IN THE SKY Astronomy Aotearoa

6. MOST OF OUR SKY AND SPACE ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL EFFECTS ARE DUE TO THE SUN, TAMANUI I TE RA Astronomy Aotearoa

7. SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa

8. WE FOUNDED SHARING SPACE 14 YEARS AGO, WE HAVE 600 MEMBERS OUR SITE IS WWW.ASTRONOMY.NET.NZ Astronomy Aotearoa

9. WE FOUNDED ASTRONOMY AOTEAROA 6 YEARS AGO, WE HAVE 300 MEMBERS OUR SITE IS WWW.ASTRONOMYAOTEAROA.COM Astronomy Aotearoa

10. is also the name of a book by Robert Shaw

11. Astronomy Aotearoa contains my photographs

12. Astronomy Aotearoa 1. Inspiration We are inspired by the light ‘te marama’

13. Astronomy Aotearoa and dark ‘te po’

14. Astronomy Aotearoa of the southern sky ‘ranginui’

15. Astronomy Aotearoa We wait for Matariki to rise each year…

16. Astronomy Aotearoa We wait for Matariki to rise each year… Globally, the heliacal rising of Pleiades often marks important calendar points for ancient peoples

17. Astronomy Aotearoa

19. MATARIKI Seven Sisters PLEIADES SUBARU Khima al-Thurayya – Soraya Parvin

20. Astronomy Aotearoa The kabbalistic astrological sign "Pleiades". Corresponding to Pleiades constellation. Originally described in Libri tres de occulta philosophia 1531 by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.

21. Astronomy Aotearoa 2. The cave more than 1500 pictures of animals 17,000 years ago

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31.  Lascaux  Paleolithic European Constellations - star maps 16,500-13,000 B.C.

32. Sharing Space  2 The cave

33. Sharing Space  2 The cave MATARIKI

34. Sharing Space  2 The cave Pleiades MATARIKI

35. Sharing Space  2 The cave Hyades Pleiades MATARIKI

36. Astronomy Aotearoa The ancients looked at the sky and saw much more than most of us can now.were astronomers!

37. Astronomy Aotearoa They moved from natural caves to building their own spaces inside temples and pyramids. Check these pics….ans were astronomers!

38. Astronomy Aotearoa YES! Ancient humans were astronomers!

39. Sharing Space YES! Ancient humans were astronomers!

40. Sharing Space YES! Ancient humans were astronomers!

41. Sharing Space YES! Ancient humans were astronomers!

42. Sharing Space YES! Ancient humans were astronomers!

43. Astronomy Aotearoa 3. Stone Circles

48. Sharing Space 3. Stone Circles

49. Sharing Space 3. Stone Circles Stonehenge Aotearoa - New Zealand

50. Astronomy Aotearoa 4. Planetariums and observatories

56. Mata ora 2006

62. Astronomy Aotearoa 6. Art ‘STARS’ Task: create 24 hours of pure sky movie Repeat 6 times. Play back simultaneously on 6 screens Synchronise with the sky outside

63. Astronomy Aotearoa 6. Art STARS Need: 6 sets of 8 files of 3 hrs each Day footage is HDV 1440x1080 bluray shot on HD video camera Night footage is synthesized using virtual camera moving over stills in software

64. Astronomy Aotearoa 6. Art Galleries

65. Sharing Space Gus Fisher Gallery

66. Astronomy Aotearoa Gus Fisher Gallery

67. Astronomy Aotearoa Dunedin Public Art Gallery

68. Astronomy Aotearoa Dunedin Public Art Gallery

69. Sharing Space Dunedin Public Art Gallery

70. Astronomy Aotearoa Auckland Galatos MIC Toi Rerehiko

71. Sharing Space Auckland Galatos MIC Toi Rerehiko

72. Sharing Space Auckland Galatos MIC Toi Rerehiko

73. Sharing Space Film Archive

74. Astronomy Aotearoa Film Archive

75. Astronomy Aotearoa Stage ‘SPACE RADIO’

76. Sharing Space Stage

77. Astronomy Aotearoa 7.The Street International Year of Astronomy 2009

78. Astronomy Aotearoa 7.The Street Sidewalk Astronomers

79. Astronomy Aotearoa

83. Sharing Space

84. Astronomy Aotearoa 7.The Street Astronomers Without Borders

85. Astronomy Aotearoa 7.The Street Global Astronomy Month

86. Astronomy Aotearoa 7.The Street Global Astronomy Month

87. Astronomy Aotearoa 7.The Street STARPEACE

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93. Sharing Space

95. Astronomy Aotearoa 8. The Wellington South Coast

96. Astronomy Aotearoa 8. The South Coast

97. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

98. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

99. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

100. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

101. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

102. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

103. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

104. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

105. Sharing Space 7. The South Coast

106. Astronomy Aotearoa 9. Music & Festivals

107. Sharing Space 8. Music & Festivals

108. Sharing Space 8. Music & Festivals

109. Sharing Space 8. Music & Festivals

110. Sharing Space 8. Music & Festivals

111. Astronomy Aotearoa 8. Music & Festivals

112. Astronomy Aotearoa 8. Music & Festivals

113. Sharing Space 8. Music & Festivals 12 Hour Concert with Telescopes

114. Sharing Space 8. Music & Festivals

115. Sharing Space 8. Music & Festivals

116. Sharing Space 3. Stone Circles Wakefest with Concord Dawn

117. Astronomy Aotearoa Wellington City Library

118. Astronomy Aotearoa Wellington City Library

119. Astronomy Aotearoa Wellington City Library

120. Sharing Space 8. Music & Festivals

121. Astronomy Aotearoa Three Scapes - Ranginui

122. 8. Music & Festivals

123. Astronomy Aotearoa 10. The Forest Festivals

124. Sharing Space 10. The Forest Festivals

125. Sharing Space 10. The Forest Festivals

126. Sharing Space 10. Stonehenge Aotearoa Festivals

127. Sharing Space 10. Stonehenge Aotearoa Festivals

128. Sharing Space 10. Stonehenge Aotearoa Festivals

129. Sharing Space 10. Stonehenge Aotearoa Festivals

130. Sharing Space 10. Stonehenge Aotearoa Festivals

131. Sharing Space 10. Stonehenge Aotearoa Festivals

132. THE ART OF ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa 11. ISEA2011

133. THE ART OF ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa 11. ISEA2011

134. Astronomy Aotearoa 11. ISEA2011 13 New Zealand Artists were invited to exhibit at the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTS held in Turkey as part of the Istanbul Biennale.

135. Astronomy Aotearoa 11. ISEA2011 The exhibition is called Te Kore Rongo Hungaroa

136. Astronomy Aotearoa 11. ISEA2011 SECOND NATURE – Te Kore Rongo Hungaroa, is the kiwi artist part of the exhibition UNCONTAINABLE

137. Astronomy Aotearoa 11. ISEA2011 My astro-photographs of the southern night sky were exhibited at CUMHURIYET Gallery TAKSIM SQUARE

138. Astronomy Aotearoa 11. ISEA2011 My astro-photographs of the southern night sky were exhibited at CUMHURIYET Gallery TAKSIM SQUARE

139. THE ART OF ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa

140. THE ART OF ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa

141. THE ART OF ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa

142. THE ART OF ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa Julian Priest exhibited ‘INFORMATION COMES FROM THE SUN’

143. Astronomy Aotearoa Julian Priest talks about Tamanui i te Ra ‘The Sun is normally characterised as an energy source, but in all energetic processes total energy is conserved (in closed systems). That is the total energy before a transformation is the same as the total energy after a transformation if you consider the system as a whole.’

144. Astronomy Aotearoa What does change is the distribution of energy and this distribution is called the entropy of the system. Now ‘entropy’ is kind of like disorder or the opposite of _information_ which is a kind of ordering. If you think about the sun, energy in a low entropy state (highly ordered) is transferred out of the sun and hits the earth. On earth this low entropy energy or information is used by life processes to make structure. In turn higher entropy - lower information - energy is transmitted from earth into space as infrared energy.

145. Astronomy Aotearoa But the total energy in the system remains the same - just it's ordering changes. The energy was concentrated in the sun - now it is on earth and being radiated into space. The total energy is the same - but it's distribution has changed. This is why I say Information Comes From the Sun. I want people to think about information being the primary material and energy just being the carrier. The life forms in the camera cases are examples of what happens to the information that comes from the sun when it hits earth - it creates structures in trees and lichens and rocks etc.

146. Astronomy Aotearoa The third level in the work is the Scientific and Maori descriptions of the objects. These are our human descriptions of the object – a different order of information than the physical information embeded in the structure of the objects. This kind of information is formed by us in culture and language and often represented as 1's and 0's in digital systems for instance. Though it has a very different scale it behaves essentially like physical information.

147. Astronomy Aotearoa So the work as a whole describes the information flow through the Sun - Earth - Culture system - originally generated in the sun - flowing to the earth where it is converted into trees and other organic structures - and finally through our human processes of abstraction, culture and language forming what we typically call information - ie sequences of symbols.

148. SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa 12.Tamanui i te Ra Sol - our Sun)

149. Astronomy Aotearoa 12.Tamanui i te Ra FIRST LIGHT IYA2009

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161. SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa 13. Play Astrozone video ASTROZONE 10140 http://youtu.be/w70RQG31iHA http://youtu.be/w70RQG31iHA

162. SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa 14. Questions and Answers session

163. SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa 15.Safe Solar Viewing NEVER look directly at the SUN!! The SUN can cause BLINDNESS

164. SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa 15.Safe Solar Viewing NEVER look directly at the SUN!! ONLY use approved viewing devices

165. SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY Astronomy Aotearoa Thank you