Seven Sisters eclipse will temporarily block stars from view
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·July 20, 2025freitasm
hapticmonkey
If anyone reading this ever gets the chance, go to Tekapo in New Zealand and enjoy the sky. The area is park of a Dark Sky Reserve. I enjoyed a midnight stargazing tour complete with telescopes and hot springs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoraki_Mackenzie_International...
addaon
Unfortunately, this was three nights ago.
sokoloff
You're in luck.
> The event is not rare and has taken place every month since September 2023.
fsckboy
> and is set to do so until July 2029. However, depending on whereabouts, it may or may not be visible as it can only be viewed from certain locations each month.
Hnrobert42
Also on August 16th, 2025.
optimalsolver
Brought to mind Isaac Asimov's Nightfall, about a world where the stars only appear every thousand years or so:
theoreticalmal
Which includes a fascinating role of religion! Guarding secrets and issuing warnings, even though they don’t understand the underlying reason. Science of the time can’t figure out why the warnings are necessary, so culture partially ignores them, to its own peril
Bluestein
Same. Great book.-
robertlagrant
Originally a short story! Never read the book, but the short story was good.
Bluestein
Indeed. Guy's so missed.-
And, Sagan, and that caliber ...
yencabulator
Because of the moon. What a non-article.
> The event is not rare and has taken place every month since September 2023.
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Matariki (1): "In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July (Southern hemisphere). The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar."
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matariki