Key day in Matariki celebrations

Source: Wikipedia Its a key day in the Maori festival of the new year with the moon is at its closest point to Earth. To mark the occassion, in Auckland, mayor Len Brown officially launched the Matariki festival on One Tree Hill at 6am. Matariki celebrates the rising of the Pleiades star cluster and this morning the moon will set prior to the pre-dawn rising of the star cluster Matariki and ...