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  • Looking Forward: Comet Halley in 2061 and Mercury’s Transit in 2032

    As promised last time, we are going to be looking far ahead into the future to take a look at Halley’s Comet. Halley’s Comet has a period of about 75 years, though this varies due to the planets effect as it passes them. Right now, we have to wait 37 years for it to return

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  • Comets Continued: Time to Say Goodbye to 12P/Pons-Brooks

    While comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was making its approach to the Sun, it became visible to the naked eye from the Northern Hemisphere, under good conditions at least. It was also quite close to Jupiter in the sky during the recent total solar eclipse visible from North America. This lead to the comet getting a lot of

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  • A Closer Look at the Saturn: The Ringed Planet

    Now that Saturn is returning to the early morning sky, even becoming visible to the naked eye in the city, we are going to take a closer look at the planet. It is still tricky to see from higher latitudes, but as long as you are up early enough and have a clear view of

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  • A Look Ahead to May: What We Can See as the Nights Get Shorter

    We are back to looking a month ahead, to see what the sky will look like in May as we come to the end of April. In the last video, about a few meteor showers, we touched on the Eta Aquariids, which are one of the big astronomical events in May, but the sky is

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  • The End of April and Meteor Showers

    As we approach the end of April, the sky has continued to shift and change, so we will be taking a look at what is visible where now, as the nights begin to shorten. We will also take a look brief look at the Lyrid meteor show that occurs at the end of April. Back

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  • Damhsa na Pláinéid: Conas a Bhogann Siad

    In this video, we take a look at the planets, particularly their motion through the sky. We’ve looked at the motion of various planets before, but mostly individually. Here, we’re looking at the planets all together, so we can compare their movements to each other and the background of the stars. We’ll start by looking

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  • Other Solar Systems You Can See With Your Own Two Eyes: Exoplanets Orbiting Visible Stars!

    We are taking another look at exoplanets! There is so much to say about planets beyond our solar system that we are addressing them again here. You can go back on this website or my YouTube channel and check out my previous video and/or article on the topic. We will really be looking for and

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  • The Nova in Corona Borealis: What it is and Where to Find it

    There has been a lot of hype in the news lately about an upcoming nova, an appropriate amount of hype given what is going to occur. Both novae and supernovae get there name from the Latin word for new, nova, as they can appear to form a whole new star in the sky. This is

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  • Jupiter: A Closer Look at the Giant Planet

    In this video, we finally take a closer look at Jupiter. Jupiter has been incredibly prominent in our sky for months now, especially standing out as the brightest object in the sky at sunset the past couple of months, appearing as the very first object when the sky begins to darken. Jupiter is much further

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  • Dark Skies and Light Pollution: What Does it Look Like?

    Another video celebrating dark skies week and looking at light pollution. The previous Irish language video on this channel also talked about light pollution and dark skies, but in this video we won’t just look at pristine skies with low light pollution, we’re also going to look at areas with much higher incidence of light

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