Star Safari
3 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -"What's in the sky" with Hari and Sam. Our programmes are supported by Arrow FM Wairarapa. https://www.arrowfm.co.nz/programmes/show/224/star-safari/
We are space science communicators. Hari is an astrobiologist, analog astronaut and NASA intern, and Sam is an astrophysicist and former NZ Air Force pilot.
We run stargazing from www.Star-Safari.NZ in Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve and space and education programmes www.spacewardbound.nz throughout New Zealand.
In our free time we design courses and space education materials, stargaze, make Moon gardens and build mini-Perseverance replica robots.
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Episodes
February 2024 in the sky from Wairarapa New Zealand
February 06, 2024 01:40 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBWe look at what's in the sky in February and what you see when you're stargazing.
Star Safari goes to Mars with Mitch Schulte
August 10, 2021 09:36 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBWe interviewed Mitch Schulte, Mars Exploration Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC and our NZ Astrobiology Network official adviser. Mitch talks to us about Perseverance, Mars regolith, asterisms, working from home and we are listening to sounds from Mars and try to find out how our voices would sound like if we were on Mars. You can do this too at https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/sounds/ Simply record yourself and then play it back. The interview was taken in ...
Star Safari in May and June 2021
May 16, 2021 10:31 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBA tour of our favourite celestial objects in the night sky that you can see in May and June 2021 from Wairarapa, New Zealand one of the darkest places in the world, where the Milky Way stretches from one horizon to the other. A favourite this month, quasar 3C - 273 and other space oddities, Omega Centauri, Gem Cluster, Eta Carinae. Scorpius is rising and Orion is slowly disappearing. Brightest stars, when to avoid the Moon and why and what did the ancient Egyptians think of the circumpolar...