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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 ASTRONOMER specialising in ASTRO-ART and Community outreach. Astronomy Aotearoa. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Astronomy Aotearoa – by Paul Moss
KIA ORA LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND CHILDREN
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MY NAME IS PAUL MOSS
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I AM AN ASTRONOMERSPECIALISING IN ASTRO-ARTAND COMMUNITY OUTREACH
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MY PASSION IS CAPTURING AND SHARING BEAUTIFUL, UNUSUAL AND RARE EVENTS IN THE SKY
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MOST OF OUR SKY AND SPACE ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL EFFECTS ARE DUE TO THE SUN, TAMANUI I TE RA
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WE FOUNDED SHARING SPACE 14 YEARS AGO, WE HAVE 600 MEMBERS OUR SITE IS WWW.ASTRONOMY.NET.NZ
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WE FOUNDED ASTRONOMY AOTEAROA 6 YEARS AGO, WE HAVE 300 MEMBERS OUR SITE IS WWW.ASTRONOMYAOTEAROA.COM
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Astronomy Aotearoa is also the name of a book by Robert Shaw
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Astronomy Aotearoa contains my photographs
Astronomy Aotearoa1. Inspiration
We are inspired by the light ‘te marama’
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and dark ‘te po’
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of the southern sky ‘ranginui’
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We wait for Matariki to rise each year…
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We wait for Matariki to rise each year…Globally, the heliacal rising of Pleiades often marks important calendar points for ancient peoples
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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
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Astronomy AotearoaLascaux Paleolithic
European Constellations - star maps 16,500-13,000 B.C.
Sharing Space 2 The cave
Sharing Space 2 The cave
MATARIKI
Sharing Space 2 The cave
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Sharing Space 2 The cave
Hyades
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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!
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YES!
Ancient humans were astronomers!
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Ancient humans were astronomers!
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Ancient humans were astronomers!
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Ancient humans were astronomers!
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Ancient humans were astronomers!
Astronomy Aotearoa3. Stone Circles
3. Stone Circles
3. Stone Circles
3. Stone Circles
3. Stone Circles
Sharing Space3. Stone Circles
Sharing Space3. Stone Circles
Stonehenge Aotearoa - New Zealand
Astronomy Aotearoa4. Planetariums and observatories
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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
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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
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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
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Stage‘SPACE RADIO’
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Astronomy Aotearoa7. The
StreetInternationalYear ofAstronomy 2009
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SidewalkAstronomers
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Sharing Space
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AstronomersWithout Borders
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Global Astronomy Month
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7. The Street
Global Astronomy Month
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STARPEACE
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Sharing Space
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Astronomy Aotearoa8. The Wellington South Coast
Astronomy Aotearoa8. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Sharing Space7. The South Coast
Astronomy Aotearoa9. Music&Festivals
Sharing Space8. Music&Festivals
Sharing Space8. Music&Festivals
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Astronomy Aotearoa8. Music&Festivals
Sharing Space8. Music&Festivals
12 Hour Concert with Telescopes
Sharing Space8. Music&Festivals
Sharing Space8. Music&Festivals
Sharing Space3. Stone Circles
Wakefest with Concord Dawn
Astronomy AotearoaWellingtonCity Library
Astronomy AotearoaWellingtonCity Library
Astronomy AotearoaWellingtonCity Library
Sharing Space8. Music&Festivals
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Three Scapes - Ranginui
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Astronomy Aotearoa10. The ForestFestivals
Sharing Space10. The ForestFestivals
Sharing Space10. The ForestFestivals
Sharing Space10. Stonehenge AotearoaFestivals
Sharing Space10. Stonehenge AotearoaFestivals
Sharing Space10. Stonehenge AotearoaFestivals
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Sharing Space10. Stonehenge AotearoaFestivals
Sharing Space10. Stonehenge AotearoaFestivals
THE ART OF ASTRONOMYAstronomy Aotearoa
11. ISEA2011
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11. ISEA2011
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11. ISEA2011
13 New Zealand Artists were invited to exhibit at theINTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTSheld in Turkey as part of the Istanbul Biennale.
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11. ISEA2011
The exhibition is called Te Kore Rongo Hungaroa
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11. ISEA2011
SECOND NATURE – Te Kore Rongo Hungaroa, is the kiwi artist part of the exhibition UNCONTAINABLE
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11. ISEA2011
My astro-photographs of the southern night sky were exhibited at CUMHURIYET Gallery TAKSIM SQUARE
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11. ISEA2011
My astro-photographs of the southern night sky were exhibited at CUMHURIYET Gallery TAKSIM SQUARE
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Julian Priest exhibited ‘INFORMATION COMES FROM THE SUN’
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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.’
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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12.Tamanui i te Ra Sol - our Sun)
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12.Tamanui i te RaFIRST LIGHT IYA2009
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13. Play Astrozone video
ASTROZONE 10140http://youtu.be/w70RQG31iHA
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14. Questions and Answers session
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15.Safe Solar Viewing
NEVER look directly at the SUN!!The SUN can cause BLINDNESS
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15.Safe Solar Viewing
NEVER look directly at the SUN!!ONLY use approved viewing devices
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Thank you