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Best,E 1955 'The astronomical knowledge of the Maori',Dominion Museum
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Monograph no.3 Wellington:Government Printer
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Best,E 1959 'The Maori division of time',Dominion Museum Monograph no4.
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Wellington: Government Printer
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Evans,J 1998 'The discovery of Aotearoa', Reed
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Kingsley-Smith, C 1967 'Astronomers in puipuis. Maori Star lore',
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Leather,K and Hall,Richard 2004 'Tatai Arorangi: Maori Astronomy, Work of the
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gods',Viking sevenseas nz ltd, Paraparaumu, NZ, ISBN:085467105 6
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Lewis,D 1994 'We, the navigators. The ancient art of landfinding in
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the Pacific',University of Hawaii press
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Orbell,M 1996 'The natural world of the Maori',David Bateman ltd
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Orchiston, W 'Australian Aboriginal, Polynesian and Maori Astronomy',
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Chapter of 1996 'Astronomy before the telescope' 318-328. Editor Chris
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Castor not pollux labelled Whakaahu
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put in matariki as a star 17499, and set magnitudes to limit 4.0 so it can be seen
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stars in Matariki also randomly labelled, just to get the names in.
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put tekokota(hyades) in as a constellation
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Jupiter and Saturn both have names Perearau, so labelled them Jupiter Perearau_1 and
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Venus has two names, Meremere and Tawera, as there were seperate names for the morning and evening stars.
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In maori, double stars, optical or visual are called Pipiri, as an example Algieba is labelled Pipiri
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TERMS in this program: (well some of them)
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Venus (morning star) Tawera
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(evening star) Meremere
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Both Jupiter and Saturn the same conflicting name in Maori.
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Castor/(Pollox) Whakaahu
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Orion (whole belt) Hao - o- rua
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(the tail) Te Waka-o-Tama-Rereti
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Pointers Te Taura Ra o Tainui
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Maori constellation Te-Ra-o-Tainui
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Southern Cross Mahutonga
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Milky Way Te ika o te rangi
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Large Magellan cloud Te Waka Ruru
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Small Magellan cloud Tuputuputu
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Ecliptic Pito - o - Watea
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-Te-Ra-o-Tainui: A maori constellation without a European counterpart.
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This represents a waka, the belt of orion the keel,
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the hyades, a claw sail and the Pleiades the bow.
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-The individual star name Whakaahu either refers to A_Gem or B_Gem,thus
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in this program A_Gem is taken as Whakaahu de to a second reference to
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Stowell from Best(1955).
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- Matariki refers to the Pleiades,
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which technically, is not a single star but a star cluster made up dozens
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of stars, six visible for naked eye observing, seven if great.
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-WhitiKaupeka and Ruawahia are other Stowell references, A source
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that does not fully correlate with Best.
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