Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Horowhenua Chronicle
Grandparents enjoy a day in spotlight
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ELOISE Branagh, 5, took the art of cup cake decorating very seriously, with a little help from grandmother Sheila Hinder, at Te Takere’s Grandparents’ Day on Sunday. The Community Wellbeing event run by Horowhenua District Council, launched last year to celebrate the grandparent relationship, also aims to help raise awareness in young children about the contribution older people make to the community. Mrs Hinder said she enjoyed last year’s event and was pleased to see it advertised again. “The grandchildren enjoyed it as well, it’s a lovely way to spend time with them.” Other activities during the afternoon included storytelling by former Radio New Zealand broadcaster Sharon Crosbie, card making, researching family trees back four generations with the help of Horowhenua Family History Group and live music from Hobs’n’Nails.
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PHOTOGRAPHED last month by George Ionas, comet 67P Churyumov Gerasimenko through his Takahashi astrograph. This month send in your best photographs, it could be of the moon, planets, nebulae or even star trails into news@chronicle.co.nz and you might see your photograph in next month’s article.
Comet provides highlight Last month was eventful for both lunar and solar, and even a comet. Last month, on the 9th, was the last super moon of 2014 and an asteroid flyby of 2014RC which passed 40,000km from Earth. A large sunspot Ar2158 resulted in producing a X1.6 flare several hundred times more powerful than a M class flare creating auroras around the world. This month there is a lunar eclipse on the 8th starting with a partial eclipse at 10.14pm and the full eclipse starting at 11.27pm. [The moon will be fully eclipsed at 11.55pm.]
Positioned midway in the western sky is Mars setting at midnight. You don’t need a telescope or a pair of binoculars to see Mars, however you will need a pair or small telescope to see the comet siding spring C/2013 passing close to Mars. Fact of the month: Galileo Galilei is often incorrectly credited with the invention of the telescope. Instead, historians now believe the Dutch eyeglass maker Johannes Lippershey is its creator. Galileo was, however, probably the first to use the device to study the heavens.
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