Month: April 2025
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The Night Sky in May: Meteor Shower, Planets and the Milky Way
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the month of May and for a change we’re going to start with sunrise at the start of the month, on May Day. Watching the first sunrise of the month immediately gives us Venus, visible early in the morning already on the 1st of May, you…
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Future Conjunctions: Looking Far Ahead
Today we are going to be looking forward. In the previous video we looked back to varying degrees and discussed things that were dealt with in the past, specifically figuring out the date of Easter and its relation to calendars. Today, however, we are going to be looking into the future to varying degrees, to…
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A Lunar Calendar and a Solar Calendar: Easter and the Computus Paschalis
Today, we are going to look a little bit into the past and then a lot into the past. We will start by going back just a couple of days to the 20th of April. This was Easter Sunday this year and some of you may know that Easter Sunday varies a lot between different…
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Late April Constellations
Today, we are going to take a look at the late April night sky. We’re going to look at the general features of the night sky, the planets, the stars, the constellations and how they look now that we’re coming into the later part of April. Speaking of coming into April, we are in “summer…
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Putting Comet 2025 F2 (SWAN) in Stellarium
Today, we are going to be taking a look for and at a new comet. The comet in question was discovered quite recently, just last month in March. The comet is called C/2025 F2 (SWAN). That’s C/ for “comet” and 2025 because it was discovered in 2025, that part is nice and easy of course.…
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The Galactic Equator, The Ecliptic and Angular Measurment
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the galaxy, its equator, the ecliptic of our solar system and angles. As disparate as those topics sound, they do all flow together. We are going to begin by taking a look at our galaxy, the Milky Way. It does require dark skies, but just…
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The April Lyrids
Today we are going to look just a little further ahead into April to take a look at the Lyrid meteor shower. The Lyrid with meteor shower is going to be peaking pretty late in April, the 22nd/23rd, so we’re going to have to push pretty late to get to the peak. The Lyrids do…
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Early Morning Planets: Better from Elsewhere
Happy April Fool’s Day everyone, don’t worry I won’t be pulling any pranks. Today we are going to take a look at Mercury, Saturn and Venus in the morning. In a recent piece I mentioned that Mercury is coming to its greatest elongation and how that wouldn’t really be visible for us here in Ireland.…
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