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  • The April Lyrids

    Today we are going to look just a little further ahead into April to take a look at the Lyrid meteor shower. The Lyrid with meteor shower is going to be peaking pretty late in April, the 22nd/23rd, so we’re going to have to push pretty late to get to the peak. The Lyrids do…

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  • Early Morning Planets: Better from Elsewhere

    Happy April Fool’s Day everyone, don’t worry I won’t be pulling any pranks. Today we are going to take a look at Mercury, Saturn and Venus in the morning. In a recent piece I mentioned that Mercury is coming to its greatest elongation and how that wouldn’t really be visible for us here in Ireland.…

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  • The March Solar Eclipse

    Today we are going to take a closer look at the partial solar eclipse that we will be able to see from here in Ireland on Saturday the 29th of March. We will begin looking at the whole sky for midday on Saturday the 29th of March. The eclipse will have just finished at this…

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  • The Night Sky in April: A Quick Look Ahead

    Today we are going to take a quick look ahead into the coming month of April. April is coming up, and there aren’t too many particularly crazy events happening in April. It will be after the solar eclipse that’s coming up at the end of this month, which I will cover before the end of…

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  • The Spring Equinox and a View from Mercury

    Today we are going to talk about the equinox. The date of posting, the 20th, is the equinox, so we are coming through the equinox right now. This is the vernal equinox or the spring equinox for the northern hemisphere and the autumnal equinox or the autumn equinox for the Southern Hemisphere. It could be…

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  • Double Venus!

    Today we are going to be looking at Venus. In a recent video, when we were taking an overview of March, I pointed out Venus visible at sunset in the early part of March, really close to Mercury, and once we came around to the end of March I showed Venus at sunrise after coming…

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  • Some Space Words in Irish | Cúpla Focail Spáis i nGaeilge

    Today I am going to go through a little bit of Irish language vocabulary or foclóir to do with the sky. Foclóir is also the word for dictionary, but you can also use it for vocabulary. I’ve seen stór focail for vocabulary, but that feels more like a word bank, like in a word search.…

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  • Truailliú Solas + Féile Spéartha Dorcha | Light Pollution + a Dark Skies Festival

    Today we will be talking about light pollution. I am after talking about light pollution before on this YouTube channel and I will talk about light pollution again in the future. Nonetheless, I am going to talk about light pollution for this show as well. Very quickly to begin, before talking about light pollution, we…

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  • Na Dhá Urú i mí na Márta! | Both of the Eclipses in March!

    Today, we will be looking at the eclipses, a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse, as we have one of each coming up in March. The first eclipse, the lunar one, is occurring on the 14th, but very early in the morning, so we will start on the 13th with sunset instead. The Moon is…

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  • The Night Sky in March: Overview

    Today we are going to take a more general look ahead to the month of March. We’ve got some eclipses coming up, which is very exciting, we have both a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse if you are in the right part of the planet. Even though the parade of planets is over, Mercury,…

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