SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY

SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY

Astronomy Aotearoa – by Paul Moss

KIA ORA LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND CHILDREN

Astronomy Aotearoa

MY NAME IS PAUL MOSS

Astronomy Aotearoa

I AM AN ASTRONOMERSPECIALISING IN ASTRO-ARTAND COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Astronomy Aotearoa

MY PASSION IS CAPTURING AND SHARING BEAUTIFUL, UNUSUAL AND RARE EVENTS IN THE SKY

Astronomy Aotearoa

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

Astronomy Aotearoa

SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY

Astronomy Aotearoa

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

Astronomy Aotearoa

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

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa is also the name of a book by Robert Shaw

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa contains my photographs

Astronomy Aotearoa1. Inspiration

We are inspired by the light ‘te marama’

Astronomy Aotearoa

and dark ‘te po’

Astronomy Aotearoa

of the southern sky ‘ranginui’

Astronomy Aotearoa

We wait for Matariki to rise each year…

Astronomy Aotearoa

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

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy AotearoaMATARIKISeven SistersPLEIADESSUBARUKhimaal-Thurayya – SorayaParvin

Astronomy AotearoaThe kabbalistic astrological sign "Pleiades". Corresponding to Pleiades constellation.

Originally described in Libri tres de occulta philosophia 1531 by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.

Astronomy Aotearoa2. The cave

more than 1500 pictures of animals 17,000 years ago

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy AotearoaLascaux Paleolithic

European Constellations - star maps 16,500-13,000 B.C.

Sharing Space 2 The cave


MATARIKI


PleiadesMATARIKI


Hyades

PleiadesMATARIKI

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

Astronomy AotearoaThey moved from natural caves to building their own spaces inside temples and pyramids.

Check these pics….ans were astronomers!

Astronomy Aotearoa

YES!

Ancient humans were astronomers!

Sharing SpaceYES!


Sharing SpaceYES!


Sharing SpaceYES!


Sharing SpaceYES!


Astronomy Aotearoa3. Stone Circles

3. Stone Circles

3. Stone Circles

3. Stone Circles

3. Stone Circles

Sharing Space3. Stone Circles


Stonehenge Aotearoa - New Zealand

Astronomy Aotearoa4. Planetariums and observatories

Mat

a or

a 20

06

Astronomy Aotearoa6. Art‘STARS’

Task: create 24 hours of pure sky movie

Repeat 6 times.

Play back simultaneously on 6 screens

Synchronise with the sky outside

Astronomy Aotearoa6. ArtSTARS

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

Astronomy Aotearoa6. Art Galleries

Sharing SpaceGus Fisher Gallery

Astronomy AotearoaGus Fisher Gallery

Astronomy AotearoaDunedin Public Art Gallery

Astronomy AotearoaDunedin Public Art Gallery

Sharing SpaceDunedin Public Art Gallery

Astronomy AotearoaAucklandGalatosMIC Toi Rerehiko

Sharing SpaceAucklandGalatosMIC Toi Rerehiko

Sharing SpaceAucklandGalatosMIC Toi Rerehiko

Sharing SpaceFilm Archive

Astronomy AotearoaFilm Archive

Astronomy Aotearoa

Stage‘SPACE RADIO’

Sharing SpaceStage

Astronomy Aotearoa7. The

StreetInternationalYear ofAstronomy 2009


Street

SidewalkAstronomers

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Sharing Space


Street

AstronomersWithout Borders


Street

Global Astronomy Month

Astronomy Aotearoa

7. The Street

Global Astronomy Month


Street

STARPEACE

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Sharing Space

Sharing Space

Astronomy Aotearoa8. The Wellington South Coast

Astronomy Aotearoa8. The South Coast

Sharing Space7. The South Coast









Astronomy Aotearoa9. Music&Festivals

Sharing Space8. Music&Festivals







12 Hour Concert with Telescopes




Wakefest with Concord Dawn

Astronomy AotearoaWellingtonCity Library




Astronomy Aotearoa

Three Scapes - Ranginui

8. Music&Festivals

Astronomy Aotearoa10. The ForestFestivals

Sharing Space10. The ForestFestivals

Sharing Space10. The ForestFestivals

Sharing Space10. Stonehenge AotearoaFestivals






THE ART OF ASTRONOMYAstronomy Aotearoa

11. ISEA2011


11. ISEA2011

Astronomy Aotearoa

11. ISEA2011

13 New Zealand Artists were invited to exhibit at theINTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTSheld in Turkey as part of the Istanbul Biennale.

Astronomy Aotearoa

11. ISEA2011

The exhibition is called Te Kore Rongo Hungaroa

Astronomy Aotearoa

11. ISEA2011

SECOND NATURE – Te Kore Rongo Hungaroa, is the kiwi artist part of the exhibition UNCONTAINABLE

Astronomy Aotearoa

11. ISEA2011

My astro-photographs of the southern night sky were exhibited at CUMHURIYET Gallery TAKSIM SQUARE

Astronomy Aotearoa

11. ISEA2011

My astro-photographs of the southern night sky were exhibited at CUMHURIYET Gallery TAKSIM SQUARE





Julian Priest exhibited ‘INFORMATION COMES FROM THE SUN’

Astronomy Aotearoa

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

Astronomy Aotearoa

What does change is the distribution of energy and this distribution iscalled the entropy of the system. Now ‘entropy’ is kind of like disorderor the opposite of _information_ which is a kind of ordering.

If you think about the sun, energy in a low entropy state (highly ordered) istransferred 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 fromearth into space as infrared energy.

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 intospace.

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 - itcreates structures in trees and lichens and rocks etc.

Astronomy Aotearoa

The third level in the work is the Scientific and Maori descriptions ofthe 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.

Astronomy Aotearoa

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

SIDEWALK ASTRONOMYAstronomy Aotearoa

12.Tamanui i te Ra Sol - our Sun)

Astronomy Aotearoa

12.Tamanui i te RaFIRST LIGHT IYA2009

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa


Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa

Astronomy Aotearoa


13. Play Astrozone video

ASTROZONE 10140http://youtu.be/w70RQG31iHA

http://youtu.be/w70RQG31iHA


14. Questions and Answers session


15.Safe Solar Viewing

NEVER look directly at the SUN!!The SUN can cause BLINDNESS


15.Safe Solar Viewing

NEVER look directly at the SUN!!ONLY use approved viewing devices


Thank you

Documents

SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY