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Mercury, its Greatest Elongation and More!
Today, the smallest planet is getting a long video dedicated all to it, long for my channel so far at least. Mercury will be coming up on its Greatest Western Elongation soon, so we will be able to see Mercury in the West in the morning, if you’ve stuck around a few of my videos…
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An Overview of 2024, Planets and Meteors Showers
A whole new year is beginning, and we will have plenty to see and look at! Of course we’ll be taking a close look at each month as it comes, and we’ll pay special attention to the big events of the year, such as eclipses, as they come. In this video, we’re going to look…
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A Preview of January 2024 and some Teasers for the Upcoming Year
In this video we look a little further into the New Year, beyond New Year’s Day into January 2024 itself. Most things will remain pretty much the same, many parts of the sky change slowly even from month to month. Saturn is still visible in the evening, but very much only the early evening, along…
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A Preview of New Year’s and What’s in the Sky at Midnight
New Year’s is almost upon us and it’s good to know what to look out for if you’re out under the stars. As it is tradition among many to stay up till midnight on as we go from one year to the next, it’s a perfect night to have a look at the stars and…
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Exoplanets and Where to Find Them
Firstly, this video has a terrible visual artifact around the webcam. I believe I know what went wrong and should be able to prevent it in future videos, but I’d rather post something than skip a week, so here we are. I have updated the version of Stellarium that I am using. Up until recently,…
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An Oíche is Faide agus Pláinéid timpeal Réaltaí eile
Welcome back to another Irish language video about astronomy, I endeavor to put out at least one Irish language video a month on this channel/website, and given the month that we are in, this one looks first at the longest night. In Irish, the month of December is “mí na Nollag” and Christmas is “Oíche…
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Minor Objects, Meteors, Asteroids and a Dwarf Planet in the Asteroid Belt!
The Geminid meteor shower is upon us, or very nearly at least. I mentioned the Geminids in our overview of December, and there is a whole video dedicated to meteor showers as well. However, unlike many other meteor showers, which are caused by comets, this one is caused by an asteroid called Phaethon or 3200…
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Orion: The Constellation of the Hunter and its Deep Sky Objects
In this video we are back to taking a look at something we can see in the sky when the video is published, Orion. Probably one of the most famous constellations in the sky thanks to Orion’s Belt, the three bright stars in the middle, Orion is really coming to the fore in December and…
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The Motions of the Planets and Retrograde Motion
In this video we’re going to take a look at how the planets move across the sky. For most of the planets that orbit the Sun further out than the Earth, this is reasonably simple. However, for the two planets closer to the Sun than us, things certainly look a little more complicated. This video…
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October Refresher and the latest Videos/Athnuachan Deireadh Fomhair agus Na Físeáin is Déanaí
Time for another Irish language astronomy video! This video serves to up date the previous Irish video on the positions of the planets as well as covering in Irish the topics that were covered in English by the most recent English language videos. Of course, we start with the planets. Saturn remains visible from sunset,…
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