Te Whatu Stardome Observatory & Planetarium

This guide to Te Whatu Stardome Observatory in Auckland follows the Astronomical Society's seven-year hunt for a home, rejected in turn from the Auckland Museum, Mount Hobson and Saint Andrews Reserve before Cornwall Park finally said yes. Along the way you'll meet Edith Winstone Blackwell, the widow whose bequest funded a rare half-metre telescope, and the petitioning neighbors who fought to keep an observatory out of their own backyards.