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Paul Moss Digital Cartographer
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[edit] Paul Moss

Paul Moss 2001
Paul Moss 2001
Paul Moss - Astro Photographer
Paul Moss - Astro Photographer

Paul Moss is a Photographer / Artist / Astronomer in Wellington New Zealand, contributing to the awareness of sky events, and publishing websites with southern hemisphere atmospheric images, including aurora australis and sun halo, sun dogs (parhelia) sun pillar, and sun spots. How to find, see and image these events is also a very important service he provides to the world, for free. Helping people see, image and report astronomical events is an important and highly valued component of contemporary science. Paul has four children and five grandchildren.

Aurora Australis Display Over Wellington 2001
Aurora Australis Display Over Wellington 2001

[edit] Aurora Australis - Alert for Australia and New Zealand - Comet Neat

Paul is one of a handful of astro-photographers that have seen and taken photographs of Aurora Australis, some of which have been published on the main page of NASA's spaceweather.com. The aurora storm of November 24th 2001 was substantial, with many images published by NASA. NASA - Paul Moss published image of Aurora Australis

Paul also runs an aurora telephone alert tree for the entire country of New Zealand, with a portal to and from the Southern Australian Aurora Observers telephone alert tree. The service is very important to the community to ensure images are collected and reports are sent to the Solar and Terrestrial Despatch, to aid scientific understanding of a rare and interesting effect from the solar wind.

Paul also assists finding and imaging comets; his images of Comet Neat made it to spaceweather.com home page 8th March 2003. This was of important interest to the global astronomical community as the comet arrived from an unusually high celestial angle, only being visible to the Southern Hemisphere for long periods.

Full Moon rising over Te Papa
Full Moon rising over Te Papa

[edit] Local astronomy with the public

In conjunction with the Wellington Astronomical Society he runs star parties at schools, reserves, and downtown in the cities 'side-walk' astronomy in honour of John Dobson. An image of Comet Neat that was acquired at one such series of public star parties, on Wright Hill, Karori, was selected by NASA for pic of the day on SpaceWeather dot com NASA - Paul Moss published image of Comet Neat, also archived at NASA - Paul Moss published image of Comet Neat

[edit] International speaking - Geo-science / Car sound engineering

Paul is also a digital cartographer, and is active in civil defence. Paul is an international speaker, having delivered presentations in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, over the last few decades. He presented 'database mapping techniques enabling higher yields in marketing Lord of The Rings Stamps and Coins', to the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, SOPAC, in Suva, FIJI, November 2004.

Paul addressed the Australian National Convention of TESA / TETIA in November 1984, in Launceston, Tasmania, speaking on 'car sound in the eighties'. Paul represented AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) with 800 car sound product service centres across Australia.

Comet Neat over Wellington 2003
Comet Neat over Wellington 2003

[edit] International web presence

ALEXA:

GOOGLE:

External Websites using Images from Astronomy dot net nz


[edit] Presentations to Organisations

  • 1984 Australian National Convention of TESA / TETIA

The Australian National Convention of TESA / TETIA in November 1984, in Launceston, Tasmania, speaking on 'car sound in the eighties'. Paul represented AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) with 800 car sound product service centres across Australia. TESA TETIA


  • 2004 South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, SOPAC, in Suva, FIJI

'Database mapping techniques enabling higher yields in marketing Lord of The Rings Stamps and Coins', to the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, SOPAC, in Suva, FIJI, November 2004. SOPAC


  • 2005 'Sharing Space' a presentation of entire life passion with astronomy as seen through the lens of astro-photography, to the Wellington Astronomical Society general meeting, June 1st 2005. WAS archive - Image
Synopsis: "There are really only two important considerations when taking an image of a space or sky event. The most important is composition, which part of the sky is going to be useful to convey the feeling of the display, and what other visual components are handy to include, broadening the accessibility of the image, to draw a greater audience into being interested. The other is the technical need of the camera. In real estate they say location, location, location, and I could say YES, and include timing, timing, and timing. You could say luck plays its part but in sky and space it's more vigilance and extreme patience and extended states of readiness that are the key. "Collaboration is also a big factor and that's my core driver to enable as many people to experience sky and space phenomena for themselves. I'm sure everyone here understands that whether you record the image mechanically or not, your personal experience can be summed up as a result of something called passion. "I am very happy to share with you some of the images I have captured over the years and the technical requirements of obtaining them, along with the process of sharing that to the planet for all to see and use.
"From an early age, I was fortunate to be exposed to a family space that valued sharing experience highly. From our first 50 mm telescope in the 50's, I witnessed the moons of Jupiter and rings of Saturn. With my large family I witnessed the first man-made aurora nearly 50 years ago. Along the way I have been captivated with capturing the elusive images that make up the most special experiences of my life, from the box Brownie to the SLR, from crude home video to the latest digital. I have inevitably pointed my lenses skyward to try and bring what I perceive up there to my family, friends and the planet."My motivation is two-fold; the thrill of the hunt and conquest, and the warm fuzziness of sharing. I imagine that is at the heart of many of us, as we continue to look skyward in so many different ways. I have chosen a comet NEAT image with the microwave tower at Wright Hill for my emblem; it epitomizes those two urges within me, an image that requires a bit of commitment to get, and communicating with other humans at local and global levels. "The comet symbolizes my first astro-photo, Comet Halley, and my dad's stories about that lump of ice and the visual impact it made on British society for years after it passed early last century. The tower also symbolizes the realization of a boyhood dream; to become a Radio Technician and work inside one of those places! My wildest dreams came true. Those towers are now an integral part of the global network that we all use to share our images using email and websites."
  • 2006 'Astronomy at Te Rae Kai Hau Point' an evidential presentation of the observation of sky images as seen from the Wellington South Coast, to the Resource Consent Hearing August 2006. (The resource consent was granted, with an advisory for the consent holder to liaise with the astronomical society at times of observation, to shutter and dim the building lights. This was a first for New Zealand resource consents.) South Coast Astronomy
  • 2006 'GADOT - Group Against Development On Te Rae Kai Hau Point' an evidential presentation of demographic mapping studies of the 3000 sample objectors to the resource consent, including a comparison with the national population, using a market model and CHAID expert system to conclude that more than 50% of the population would object. August 2006. GADOT
  • 2006 'Aurora, and other Interesting Phenomena' a presentation of entire life passion with sky images as seen through the lens, to the Carter Observatory 'Intro to Astronomy' class, October 2006. Carter Observatory

[edit] Published works

  • Presentation by Paul Moss:

1984 Australian National Convention of TESA / TETIA, reported by Les Cardilini, Lecturer, RMIT, in Sydney Morning Herald pink pages, certified readership >1Million.

  • Articles by Paul Moss; Published in Wellington Astronomical Society monthly newsletters.

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Paul Moss Images published on NASA SpaceWeather dot com:

Paul Moss Images published on METVUW dot com:

'We had quite a lot of skyborne ice crystals last weekend in Wellington, (9/10 September 2006) resulting in beautiful night and day skies. The numerous cloud layers were distinctly separate from each other, and in very delicate light greys. I took the city skyline at full moon drumming near civic square. I imaged moon halos late on Friday night and early on Sunday morning (02:00). I watched sun halos on Saturday and Sunday afternoon from the top of Melrose, a fantastic place to see Raukawa (Cook Strait). We saw myriads of life-like forms in the cumulous profiles. Please enjoy and feel free to post on your site' wrote Paul.

  • 10 AND Paul wrote 'I have had a rare experience in Auckland today (11 July 2006), and attached the pics for you, use if you wish.....just after I said I had never seen a clear sun dog, I get one that is un-believably bright!!. If I hadn't seen it I would doubt that any ray could be that bright. We had a halos fading up and down all afternoon, although never much more than a very subtle brightening and slight colour, but at 15:06 a sun dog appeared at the southern most edge of the halo, and was there for 4 minutes. When it began the left-hand side (southern) extended out with very bright white light, the colours being on the right-hand side, in line with the faint halo. After it faded another ray appeared almost overhead, a CZA (circumzenithal arc) (shown in the photograph above). There was some faint occasional brightening of the highest part of the halo, bending upwards at either end, maybe a tangent arc, but difficult to capture. The CZA was the brightest I have seen, perhaps my first positive sighting. I was at the Auckland Museum, and the setting certainly added to the experience, with a broad outlook far into the distance, for nearly 300 degrees.'
  • 9 Photo of Rainbow over Tapu Te Ranga Motu published 21st September 2006 on MetVuw dot com Official New Zealand Weather site

'Here is a cool picture I was so lucky to get yesterday, 21 August 2006 of a rainbow over Tapu Te Ranga Motu (the island, Island Bay, Wellington)' wrote Paul.

Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week
Published as MetVUW pic of the week

Paul Moss Images published on WAS dot org:

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