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Raetahinga Point Circumpolar Star Trail

Mirjam van Sabben — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:15:18 +0000

This is a composite image consisting of a 10 minute foreground exposure
followed by hundreds of 30 second exposures for the sky blended in
photoshop to reveal the movement of the stars over the course of 3
hours. When facing south, such as in this shot, all stars travel in a
circle around a central point (in the Southern Hemisphere this is within
the Southern Cross constellation). This kind of star trail is called a
circumpolar star trail. Raetahinga Point is on the cliff tops above
O’Neils beach and is part of the Hillary Trail. From this point you can
look out over O’Neils beach and Bethels beach beyond it, as in this
photo, and on the other side you get a view out toward Muriwai Beach.
The three hour in-the-dark hike was worth this result.

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Hamilton’s Gap

Mirjam van Sabben — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:48:24 +0000

I took this long exposure photo of rocks at high tide on the black
sanded beach on the Awhitu Peninsula called Hamilton’s Gap, named after
the Hamilton Family who arrived from Scotland to farm the nearby land in
1863.

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Untouched

Mirjam van Sabben — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:31:04 +0000

This is a remote beach on the Whangarei Heads Peninsula called Proctor’s
Beach, that can only be reached at low tide from Ocean Beach.

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