Month: January 2025
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Looking Ahead: Planets in 2040 and Mars in 2097
Today we are going to be looking into the future. Of course, on this website we almost always look into the future, it is a pretty rare event that I will look into the past. I almost always look ahead to the future because I want to prepare people for events that are coming up.…
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Looking into February and the Moon!
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the month of February, starting of course with the 1st of February this weekend. So, a Happy Imbolc or Imbolg, Lá Féile Bríd, or St Brigid’s Day, whatever you would like to call the first day of February, it is a festival of some sort in…
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Déshúiligh agus Easpa Truailliú Solas | Binoculars and a Lack of Light Pollution
For this show we are looking ahead a couple of days to the end of January, as we have a New Moon at the end of January. As I’m sure you know, certainly if you’ve been following my content for a while, if you are trying to see things out in the countryside, in true…
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The Parade of Planets is Yet to Come and Earth in Retrograde!
Having taken a look at Mars at opposition and how Mars enters into a strange, temporary, apparent retrograde motion during that time, we are going to take a look at the Earth doing the same. Of course, to see the Earth at opposition, we need to head to Venus or Mercury. However, before that I…
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Mars in Retrograde and the Martian Seasons
Lately, we have been looking a lot at the planets. A few videos ago when I spoke about the parade of planets, we followed some of the planets through the constellations that they’re going to be in over the next couple of months. For planets that are closer to the Sun, like Venus and Mercury,…
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Makemake, the Rest, and a Bonus ISS!
Today are taking a look at one of the dwarf planets, along with some of the candidate dwarf planets, with a digression to discuss the ISS as well. The dwarf planet Makemake is pretty much of the last dwarf planet, in our current list of official dwarf planets at least. Really, Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea…
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The Light of the Moon, Venus and their Shadows
Today I am going to hop through a couple of topics thanks to an idea inspired by a comment on the previous video on my YouTube channel. It is a bit of a journey, but we are going to begin by taking a look at the night sky for just a couple of nights ago,…
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The Parade of Planets and the Ecliptic: Are they Aligned?
Today we are going to talk more about the parade of planets that is coming up this month as well as the passage of the Moon across our sky. The parade of planets, all of the planets being on display, has become more and more of a big deal as we come into January. More…
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Looking into 2025: Eclipses and More!
Today we are going to continue looking at the year ahead. We will cover one or two things that are happening in January, things that I mentioned in the last video, but we are also going to look ahead to see some of the interesting things that are coming up later in 2025. First off,…
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