Observatory · 01 November 2022
In the news
Pinnacle Hill Observatory features in a story about life and change at Auckland’s southern edge.
Pinnacle Hill Observatory made the news in a Stuff feature looking at how the Auckland supercity reached the village.
The story places the observatory in its Bombay Hills setting, where rural skies meet the southern edge of the city.
Continue exploring
The feature is preserved here as part of the observatory archive, alongside the practical record of how the building, telescope floor and control room came together.
For the current observatory story, step inside the finished facility, follow the construction journey, or browse the instruments and original astrophotography now produced from the site.