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  • Today we are going to be taking a quick look at the equinox. Of course the equinox is the date where the length of the day and the length of the night are equal and the equinox is occurring on the 20th of March. The equinox occurs on the 20th of March pretty much every…

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  • For today’s piece, we are going to look ahead a couple of days to the equinox. The day of the equinox will be next week on the 20th of March, and on the date of the equinox, the night and the day are of equal length. That is the meaning of equinox, from the Latin…

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  • Today we are going to be looking at yet another conjunction. This conjunction is a little bit different from the conjunctions that we’ve taken a look at recently. Among those conjunctions was a conjunction of Saturn and Venus. That was at its best at around the seventh, so just past as of the date of…

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  • Happy Seachtain na Gaeilge to you all, it is Ireland’s National Irish-language Week, which really lasts a fortnight. We are beginning by looking at the sky for the night of Saint Patrick’s Day. The attached video is in Irish and as it is Seachtain na Gaeilge, there will be more than one Irish language video…

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  • Today we are going to be looking at some conjunctions, some close conjunctions and even closer, that are happening over the course of the month of March. Just before we take a look ahead to those, we’re going to get rid of the atmosphere and the ground so we can take a look at the…

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  • Today we are starting just as we started the last time, with sunset on the 3rd of March. This time, we are going to be looking at the lunar eclipse that’s happening on the 3rd of March, the one which isn’t visible from here in Ireland. Starting from Ireland at sunset, the Full Moon will…

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  • The March Night Sky

    Today we are going to take a quick look at the month of March. We will begin by looking forward to the 3rd of March, the night of the Full Moon, at sunset. As the Sun is setting in the west, Venus appears nice and early just a little above the sunset. It is one…

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  • Today we are looking at something that is happening on the date that this article is published, for the second time this week. Normally, I tend to look further into the future on this channel, but there happen to be events coinciding with the dates of posting at the moment. The last piece was about…

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  • Today, we are going to be taking a look at the annular solar eclipse that is happening today. It may have just happened today or is about to happen today. While you’re reading this piece, it may still be in progress. Looking at the sky from here in Ireland, we can already see that the…

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  • Today we are going to take a look at an eclipse. Of course, we have a very exciting annular eclipse coming up on the 17th of February visible from Antarctica, and we have a total solar eclipse coming up later this year visible roughly from Europe. Iceland and Spain will be the two main landfalls…

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