The Night Skies of Aotearoa New Zealand ✨ The Southern Hemisphere has absolutely magical night skies, and paired with the landscape of New Zealand it has to be one of the best places in the world for landscape astrophotography. Due to the position it appears in the sky, you can see the Milky Way Core much more clearly with your eyes in the Southern Hemisphere. And you also have extra gems that you can't see in the Northern Hemisphere, such as the Large Magellanic Cloud (no. 3). Astrophotography