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Canterbury sky atlas

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Canterbury sky atlas

This plate showing a portion of the Milky Way is from the Canterbury sky atlas. The atlas presents the photographs taken during a systematic survey of southern skies by astronomers working at Mt John Observatory.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Noel Arthur Doughty, Canterbury sky atlas (Australis). Christchurch: Dept. of Physics, University of Canterbury, 1972, plate 42

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Astronomy – overview – Mt John Observatory, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/8006/canterbury-sky-atlas (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.