Category: Astronomy
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Upcoming Conjunctions and Where to See Them
Today we are going to be looking at some conjunctions. A conjunction is when two planets, or a star and a planet, or the Moon and a planet, or the Moon and a star, anytime two interesting things get very close to each other in the sky. Some conjunctions are close conjunctions, when the two…
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Globular Clusters and 100 Subscriber Q&A Announcement
Globular clusters are the main focus of this video, a type of deep sky object that I have mentioned in previous videos, but they haven’t had their own focused video just yet. These ball of stars can be light years across, but I am excited for a much smaller number, 100. I have just surpassed…
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Venus, the View from a Strange Planet
Today we are looking at Venus. We won’t just look at Venus, just like some previous videos about the gas giants, we’re going to take a look a the view from Venus as well. The video above does begin with a quick look at how the sky appears at the moment, showing Saturn disappearing soon…
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Supermoons, Micromoons and some Meteors
As mentioned in the last video, there isn’t a lot happening in the sky this month. We do of course have the Micromoon, which I will get back to, but other than that, no eclipses or oppositions or meteor showers. However, despite not having any particular showers, we will still have some meteors. We usually…
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Spotting Satellites and the International Space Station
We are coming up to the 25th of December, Christmas for many people, and so that is the date used mostly in this video, but the topic of the video is satellites. Satellites can be surprisingly easy to spot once you know how, and although they are artificial, unlike most subjects of my videos, they…
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A Stellarium Feature, Telescopes, Binoculars and Oculars
All of the videos I make use Stellarium, we’ve seen how it can transport you through time and to other planets, and we’re going to play around with one of its features in this video, the ability to simulate the view from a telescope. Telescopes are simple in principle but of course the details can…
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The Night Sky in Ancient Times
We have used Stellarium to time travel in other videos already. In fact, almost every video looks a little bit into the future, so that we are prepared to take a look at whatever is coming up. In previous videos we travelled years into the future, to watch how the planets will move and to…
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A Quick look into the December Night Sky; the Winter Solstice and Another Meteor Shower!
Another month, another preview of upcoming astronomical phenomena! December is a great month for astronomy thanks to the long nights, including the longest night of the year! There is also a meteor shower this month, the Geminids in the middle of the month, nice and close to the New Moon, so the sky should be…
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Pairs of Stars, Doubles, Binaries and Bigger Groups
This video is again more on a topic, but it does refer to the state of the sky and positions of objects as they are at the time of the video, late November. Again however, we won’t be looking much at what’s in the sky generally here, we’ll be focused on pairs of stars. Some…
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Galaxies: How to Find Some and How they Change
This video is all about galaxies. We won’t go to far into the details of how they form or work, we’ll concentrate on actually seeing some in the sky. For that, we’ll need to take viewing conditions into account. Looking at the sky for late this November, it isn’t perfect. With a Full Moon, there’s…
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