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  • Eclipses, Solar and Lunar, the Next Total Eclipses previewed

    Rather than looking at what’s visible in the sky right now, this video goes as far into the future as necessary to see the next eclipses. Eclipses seem rarer than they are, as they are usually only visible from a particular part of the Earth, and they move around. While a solar eclipse might be

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  • Na Príomhimeachtaí i Mí na Sahmna; Dreigechith agus Úránas

    This video is very much an Irish discussion of roughly the same topics dealt with in the last English language video, what we can see in November. However, it isn’t a word for word translation, every video is a little different, even if they broadly deal with the same subjects. For a start, this video

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  • A Quick look at the November Night Sky; Uranus and the Leonid Meteor Shower

    We’re back with another monthly overview! Before we get into this month proper, we did just have a partial Lunar Eclipse which you can read a bit about in previous posts, we also just passed the Opposition of Jupiter. We have discussed oppositions and especially Jupiter in previous videos and posts as well. Jupiter is

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  • The Motions of the Planets and Retrograde Motion

    In this video we’re going to take a look at how the planets move across the sky. For most of the planets that orbit the Sun further out than the Earth, this is reasonably simple. However, for the two planets closer to the Sun than us, things certainly look a little more complicated. This video

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  • The Ecliptic and some of the Most Famous Constellations

    The ecliptic is a very special imaginary line in the sky, and it has been mentioned in previous videos, particularly as the location of eclipses. It’s where we see the planets and also the line the Sun lies on in the sky. The significance of this line was noticed even in ancient times, and as

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  • Deep Sky Objects: Nebulae, Clusters and Galaxies

    In this video, we take a look at Deep Sky Objects, those things lying outside our solar system, or even outside our galaxy, which we can see. Having dark skies with no light pollution helps and most of these objects require telescopes to see at all. From clouds of gas to groups of stars, we’ll

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  • October Refresher and the latest Videos/Athnuachan Deireadh Fomhair agus Na Físeáin is Déanaí

    Time for another Irish language astronomy video! This video serves to up date the previous Irish video on the positions of the planets as well as covering in Irish the topics that were covered in English by the most recent English language videos. Of course, we start with the planets. Saturn remains visible from sunset,

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  • Constellations and Asterisms, a Quick Look at the Shapes in the Sky

    Constellations and asterisms are a favourite topic of mine, so you can expect more vidoes on this subject in the future. As a few asterisms and constellations have come up in previous videos already, those are the ones we’re going to look at, Thankfully the Summer Triangle is still visible for at least some of

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  • A Quick Look into the October Night Sky and Dark Skies

    Now that we are moving into October, I need to point out some new highlights! As the Earth orbits around the Sun, our view of the stars slowly shifts. It isn’t too noticeable from one night to the next, but from month to month things noticeably shift. With planets and constellations rising earlier, we need

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  • The Moon and an Upcoming Eclipse

    The Moon is one of the most prominent objects in the sky. There are only a few days each month where the Moon isn’t at least a little visible for some part of the day or night, and when the Moon is full it dominates the sky. In this video, we’re going to take a

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