Summer Night SkyBy Richard Hall
The charts simulate the night sky seen from a dark sky site well away from city lights
The Morning Sky South
The seasonal stars important to Maori were usually those that rose just before
dawn and this chart shows the summer predawn sky looking due south. The entire
sky appears to slowly revolve in an anticlockwise direction around the south
celestial pole, which is at the centre of the closed fishhook. The orientation
of the stars is correct for mid-January at 5:00am (the onset of dawn)
and mid-February 3:00am (2 hours before dawn).
The Evening Sky North
This chart shows the night sky, looking due north at the beginning of the
months of November at 4am, December 2am, January midnight, February 10pm
and March at 8pm (evening twilight).
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