Kina Night Sky - Tasman, New Zealand

Stars fill the dark sky over Kina, on the shores of Tasman Bay at the top of New Zealand's South Island, and this camera watches the night sky change from sunset glow to starlight, passing satellites and the first light of morning.

From the Southern Hemisphere you can see stars that never rise in the north, including the Southern Cross and the Magellanic Clouds, two small galaxies that orbit our own Milky Way.

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is known for its dark skies, and the Aoraki Mackenzie area in the South Island became an International Dark Sky Reserve in 2012, one of the largest in the world.

Did You Know? The rise of Matariki, the star cluster also known as the Pleiades, marks the Māori New Year, and since 2022 it has been a public holiday in New Zealand.

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