Mariri Milky Way & Weather Cam

A Window Into the Southern Sky

This east-facing camera in the small farming locality of Mariri, deep in New Zealand's Tasman Region, streams directly to the web with no filters or software processing — just the raw, unedited view of the night sky above the Moutere Valley. On clear nights the dense Milky Way core rises high overhead, its dust lanes and star clusters rendered in extraordinary detail.

Live Weather Telemetry

A companion weather station feeds the overlay with continuous temperature, humidity, wind, and rainfall data collected on-site, giving viewers an instant read on conditions in the Nelson-Tasman district — one of the sunniest corners of New Zealand.

Stargazing and Meteor Watching

Operated by a local community broadcaster, the feed is part of a small network of cameras covering the wider district and regularly captures meteor showers, satellite trails, and — on active nights — the soft glow of the aurora australis low on the southern horizon.

A Rural Corner of the South Island

Surrounded by orchards and hop gardens near Lower Moutere, the camera also offers a rare glimpse of unpolluted, low-light-pollution skies increasingly hard to find elsewhere in the country.