Month: May 2025
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Parade of Planets 2028 and Mars/Mercury Occultation 2079
Today we are going to yet again take a look into the distant future, or not so distant future to begin with, to take a look at some upcoming events. These are yet more events that have been suggested by commenters, though one is a review of a previously observed event. Some of you may…
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The Planets and Constellations in June
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for the month of June. We have already looked at the night sky in June to various degrees, mostly looking at how little of a night we actually get in June, but we’re going to ignore that for this show and concentrate…
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Twilight and the Moon in June
Today we are going to have a look ahead to the coming month. We are going to look ahead to June, which is the month of the summer solstice, but we’re not going to talk about the solstice itself too much just yet. Just before we go all the way forward to June, we’re going…
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Solas na Gréine ag Meánoíche | Sunlight at Midnight
Today we will be looking ahead to the solstice and looking at sunlight visible at midnight. The attached video is an Irish language video, though English subtitles are provided as a convenience. We are looking ahead to the sky for summer, and during the summer Ireland uses Summer Time. Due to daylight savings, the time…
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Seeing the Virgo Cluster Galaxies
Today we are going to be looking at some galaxies, we’re going to be looking at some galaxies that are well placed to be seen at this particular time of the year. For this piece, we are looking at sky from the middle of May to late May, roughly from the 15th to 20th this…
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Venus’s Long Elongation and Mars at 2nd Brightest: Future Events
Today we are going to be looking into the future. Just last month, so at least a handful of articles ago, we took a look at various distances into the future to see some interesting events that were coming up, suggested to me by a commenter on YouTube. The big difference about these events is…
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May Sky Overview: Constellations and the Milky Way
Today we are going to be taking a look at the month of May generally. We will be looking generally at the month of May and taking a look at the phases of the Moon during different parts of the month as well. Just in case you didn’t catch it a couple of pieces ago,…
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Cóiméad F2 SWAN agus a Nuacht | Comet F2 SWAN and its News
Today we will be looking for a comet, a massive rock in space, the comet C/2025 F2 SWAN. You may have noticed that the attached video is in irish, and I did toy with the idea of calling SWAN, the Solar Wind ANisotropies instrument, “ealla”, the Irish word for swan. However, this is an acronym,…
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