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August Meteor Showers: The Perseids and More!
Today, we’re going to be taking a look at the Perseid meteor shower and the Eta Eridanid meteor shower, along with a couple of others. To begin with, before we move into darkness, before we move into the countryside, before we do anything else, I’m going to set the number of meteors in the Stellarium…
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Fast Moving Stars: High Proper Motion
As the title says, we are going to be looking at fast moving stars, specifically stars with high proper motion. This means stars that look like they’re moving quickly in our sky, the ones we can tell are moving fast. Usually, when we’re looking a the sky, we treat the stars as a fixed background,…
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The Dark Side, or Far Side, of the Moon and Sampling
Today we are looking, once again, at the Moon. For a change, we are going to take a look mostly at the side of the Moon that we don’t normally get to see. The Chinese Space Agency, or the China National Space Administration, has recently landed a lander, Chang’e 6, on the Far Side of…
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From North to South and East to West: How our View Changes
In a few videos now, we’ve traveled to other locations to take a look at the sky. Of course, the differences can be pretty big if you travel to the other side of the equator, and if you are hunting down an eclipse or conjunction it will be clear that the view is different from…
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A Quick Look ahead to February, What’s Coming up and a Live Show!
Not only is February the shortest month, but this year it also doesn’t have any particularly prominent events. We don’t have any particularly great meteor showers, comets, or eclipses. However, the sky is still changing as always. Saturn is leaving our sky as mentioned in the recent video where we took a look at the…
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The View from Jupiter and Close Look at the Gas Giants, From Above!
In this video, although we begin where we left off last time, floating high in the atmosphere of Saturn, we’re going to quickly transfer ourselves to Jupiter. Jupiter is that bit closer to the Sun than Saturn, which should give us a slightly better view of the inner planets. The inner planets are Earth, Mercury,…
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A Closer Look at the Gas Giants and the View from Saturn
This video is similar to the recent video on Mercury, we will be taking a closer look at some planets and the view from them. Unlike that video, this one won’t focus on just one planet or its motion through the sky. Over two videos we’re going to look at the gas giants, Jupiter and…
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Leo Rising and a Lot of Galaxies
For the latest video, we are taking a look at galaxies again! We had a brief look at galaxies in an earlier video, very generally, where as this time we are concentrating on galaxies that are visible at the moment. As the sky changes from month to month, new constellations come into the sky earlier…
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Ó Eanáir go Feabhra, Cad atá ag Teacht Suas agus Cén Sórt Gealach?
This video is a bit like a bridge between January and February. It deals with some things coming up in Irish, that the English languages videos won’t get to for another few weeks. You get an advanced look at those details as well if you are reading this. Furthermore, at one point in the video…
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The Southern Hemisphere’s Summer Sky
Winter may already feels like it’s been going on a while, but the coldest part should still be on the way as of the date of posting. The weather gets colder in winter, partly because of the angle at which the Sun’s rays are hitting us (it’s a much shallower angle, less direct), but also…
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