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  • August Astronomy: The Planets, The Perseids, and The Eclipse!

    Today we are going to take a look ahead into the coming month of August and of course, we have been looking ahead into the coming month of August all year long because August 12th is the date of the total solar eclipse that’s going to be visible across a large portion of Europe as…

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  • Shooting Stargazing: The Southern Delta Aquariids Meteor Shower from All Over the Pacific!

    Today we’re going to revisit the Southern Delta Aquariids, which are the main meteor shower that we are going to be seeing at the end of the month. I briefly mentioned this meteor shower, and some of the other meteor showers that we’re going to see, at the beginning of the month in an earlier…

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  • An Old Conjunction of Uranus and Mars: Back in 1988!

    Today we are going back in time to take a look at a conjunction. We aren’t going too far back, some of you may know that we have gone back into prehistory to take a look at things before. We’re only going back to 1988 this time and we’re going to be looking for a…

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  • The Constellations, Saturn, and Mars in Late July!

    Today we are going to take a look at the sky for later in the month of July, starting with the stars and the constellations that we’re seeing before moving on to some planets at the end. We are finally getting away from the summer solstice, so the days are getting shorter. That means we’re…

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  • An Almost Moon: Quasi-Satellite Kamo’oalewa

    Today we are going to be taking a look at something that is not quite a moon of the Earth. Before that however, speaking of the Moon, we are on the 14th of July, the New Moon is almost right in front of the Sun, as the New Moon should be. Of course, you wouldn’t…

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  • Mercury Occults the Earth: A Transit Seen From the Sun!

    Today we are going back in time to 2019, so not particularly far back in time. We’re going back to 2019 to the 11th of November to take a look at a transit of Mercury. On the 11th of the 11th 2019, if we take a closer look at the Sun in the evening before…

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  • Comet 10P/Tempel: Right on the Edge of Visibility

    Today we are going to be taking a look for a comet. The comet we’re going to take a look at is starting to be visible, it’s starting to come in towards the Sun and get closer towards the Earth, but it won’t reach its closest to us until we get into August. Nonetheless, we…

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  • From the Micromoon to the Supermoon: June to December 2026

    Today we are looking into the past, just a couple of days back to the 29th of June. This was the last Full Moon. We do, of course, have another Full Moon coming up at the end of July, but this was the most recent Full Moon that we had. In Ireland we saw it…

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  • The Blaze Star, T Coronae Borealis: When Will it Blaze?

    Today we are going to be taking a look at a few different things in the sky, including the Blaze Star, T Coronae Borealis. While we’re at it, we’re going to be doing a little bit of complaining, or at least I’m going to be doing a little bit of complaining. I am going to…

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  • A Better View of the July Conjunctions

    Today we are again going to look at the July sky, and we’re going to concentrate on the planets that are visible at sunset and sunrise. In order to give ourselves a better view, we’re going to move lower on the planet, closer to the equator. We won’t go too far to start with, just…

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