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Ian Cooper (President)

Ian lives at Glen Oroua on the Manawatu plains between Palmerston North and the coast. He has been an active amateur astronomer for nearly 40 years.
His interests are in deep-sky observing, astrophotography, comet and aurorae observing.
Ian has been involved in public out-reach, and in-house astronomy training for beginners for nearly four decades.
He has been a member of T.P.A.S., and a Council member for ten years including the position of Vice President. Ian is the president of the Palmerston North Astronomical Society, and  a founding member and past president of the Foxton Beach Astronomical Society. Ian has been the North Island Coordinator of the Aurora & Solar Section of the R.A.S.N.Z. since 1993. I am the co-author of the “Night Sky Observer’s Guide, Vol III, The Southern Section.”

email: president@astronomynz.org.nz


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Geoff Palmer (Vice-President & Treasurer)
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email: treasurer@astronomynz.org.nz


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Bernadette Whaanga (Secretary)

email: secretary@astronomynz.org.nz


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Marilyn Briggs (General Councillor) 

​email:  phoenix@astronomynz.org.nz



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Edwin Rodley (ex-officio)

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Katrina Leather (ex-officio)


Last updated 22/12/21
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