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  • Valentine’s Night from Both Hemispheres

    Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for Valentine’s night. With all of the looking ahead to the Parade of Planets at the very end of the month, I have skipped over this reasonably famous date in the middle of the month, which is of course, the 14th of…

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  • The View from Up High!

    Today, we are going to pick up with something I mentioned at the end of the previous piece. I mentioned how your height off of the ground, your elevation, can change when you’ll see things and how you’ll see things. Stellarium does allow you to change your elevation, but not quite in the way that…

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  • A Better View from Lower Latitudes

    Today’s video, we are going to be looking ahead to the end of February to the parade of planets. However, to shake it up a bit, we will be doing so from a few other latitudes. I generally show the sky as it would be seen from here in Ireland, because that is where I…

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  • Night Sky Constellations in February!

    Today’s video, we are going to take a look at the constellations that we’re going to see during February. I will be basing this description on the sky from the city, with some amount of light pollution. We will see the planets and of course the brightest stars easily, and a lot of the constellations…

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  • Looking Ahead: Planets in 2040 and Mars in 2097

    Today we are going to be looking into the future. Of course, on this website we almost always look into the future, it is a pretty rare event that I will look into the past. I almost always look ahead to the future because I want to prepare people for events that are coming up.…

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  • Looking into February and the Moon!

    Today we are going to be looking ahead to the month of February, starting of course with the 1st of February this weekend. So, a Happy Imbolc or Imbolg, Lá Féile Bríd, or St Brigid’s Day, whatever you would like to call the first day of February, it is a festival of some sort in…

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  • Déshúiligh agus Easpa Truailliú Solas | Binoculars and a Lack of Light Pollution

    For this show we are looking ahead a couple of days to the end of January, as we have a New Moon at the end of January. As I’m sure you know, certainly if you’ve been following my content for a while, if you are trying to see things out in the countryside, in true…

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  • The Parade of Planets is Yet to Come and Earth in Retrograde!

    Having taken a look at Mars at opposition and how Mars enters into a strange, temporary, apparent retrograde motion during that time, we are going to take a look at the Earth doing the same. Of course, to see the Earth at opposition, we need to head to Venus or Mercury. However, before that I…

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  • Mars in Retrograde and the Martian Seasons

    Lately, we have been looking a lot at the planets. A few videos ago when I spoke about the parade of planets, we followed some of the planets through the constellations that they’re going to be in over the next couple of months. For planets that are closer to the Sun, like Venus and Mercury,…

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  • Makemake, the Rest, and a Bonus ISS!

    Today are taking a look at one of the dwarf planets, along with some of the candidate dwarf planets, with a digression to discuss the ISS as well. The dwarf planet Makemake is pretty much of the last dwarf planet, in our current list of official dwarf planets at least. Really, Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea…

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