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  • My 23rd Speedlang Challenge Entry: Ħáŕŕå

    Hi everyone, for the first time on this website, I am going to go through a language that I have constructed, a conlang. I often make languages just for fun, but this one was prompted. Today, I am going to go through my submission for the 23rd Speedlang Challenge, a language I am calling Ħáŕŕå.…

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  • The Start of March, the Newest Moon and Eclipses!

    Today we are going to be looking at the very end of February along with a quick look ahead to March. Normally, I take a look at the coming month without finishing up the previous month, I don’t normally pay too much attention to the final day of the month. However, with the parade of…

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  • Pharáid na Pláinéid le Gach Ceann le Fheiscint | The Parade of the Planets with All of them Visible

    For today, we will be looking at the planets, and especially we will be looking at the Parade of the Planets or the March of the Planets. The attached video is in Irish, with English subtitles of course, and both parade and march seem to be words borrowed from English. Parade seems to b associated…

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  • The Highest Possible Noon

    In the last piece, I mentioned that we are coming up to the equinox. We are at least now closer to the coming equinox than we are to midwinter. If we were to move back into the recent past, back to midwinter, we’d see the Sun come down to its lowest noon high point. Moving…

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  • The Southern Hemisphere’s Parade of Planets

    We are finally coming up to the parade of planets. The full parade of planets with Mercury and Saturn above the horizon should be visible from as early as this weekend, if you are in the right location. We will be going through the potential view for a few southerly latitudes in today’s piece. To…

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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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