Month: October 2024
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Some Spooky Objects for Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Today we are going to take a look at some of the spooky things in the sky. For this piece, we won’t worry too much about when or where these objects are visible. However, many are visible at this time of the year from Ireland, but many will only be visible with good…
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A Look Ahead to the November Night Sky
Today, we will be taking a quick look ahead to the upcoming month of November to see what we can see in the sky. As I have mentioned frequently in a few of the recent videos, such as when we were discussing comets and then nova that was supposed to occur in September, predicting the…
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An Spéir ar Oíche Shamhna! / The Sky on Halloween!
For this piece we will be looking at the sky for Halloween, and a little bit into November as well. The attached video is in Irish, but with English subtitles if you need them. As such, a couple of things do get lost in translation. The Irish for Halloween is “Oíche Shamhna” or Samhain Night.…
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Eris: The Dwarf Planet that Caused all the Strife and Discord
Today we will be continuing our look at various objects in the Solar System, which now means continuing with dwarf planets. I do of course want to continue reminding people about the currently visible comet, C/2023 A3, as well. It’s still there, just barely visible as we come to the end of October. This is…
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No Nova? Corona Borealis and the Blaze Star
I am going to start with potentially a little bit of bad news. It’s not very bad news, but at the same time it’s not great, I am certainly a little disappointed. It no longer looks like we will see a new star in the sky this year. For a while, it seemed likely that…
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The October Supermoon: the Most Super of the Year?
In answer to the title: In terms of distance, yes it is! Today we are going to be looking at the Full Moon and yet another supermoon. I have mentioned in previous pieces that for a couple of months now, at least since August, it’s felt like every Full Moon has been a supermoon. Technically,…
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October’s Pair of Comets: 2023 A3 and 2024 S1
Today, we are finally going to deal with the comets that are visible at the moment. Depending on where you are and whether or not you use a telescope, these comets have technically been visible for a while. Now that they are coming up to their best and visible to the naked eye, we are…
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Earth’s (Temporary) Second Moon! Asteroid 2024 PT5
Today we are finally going to take a look at Earth’s second moon or at least our temporary second moon, asteroid 2024 PT5. In a recent previous piece, I talked about some of the classes of near-earth objects, like the Apollonian asteroids, the Aten group and more. There are a few objects that go around…
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The Southern Sky as the Seasons Change
Today we are going to take a trip to the Southern Hemisphere. As I was making the video associated with this article, I saw that the last time I gave a look at the Southern Hemisphere’s sky was this time of the year last year. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we are now leaving summertime,…
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Some Types of Near Earth Objects.
Today we are going to take another look at asteroids, focusing on a couple of particular subgroups of them. In a recent piece we looked broadly at comets and asteroid, as minor planets or small solar system bodies, as two groups that almost blend into each other. Today, we’re going to be looking at a…
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