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  • A Closer Look at the Gas Giants and the View from Saturn

    This video is similar to the recent video on Mercury, we will be taking a closer look at some planets and the view from them. Unlike that video, this one won’t focus on just one planet or its motion through the sky. Over two videos we’re going to look at the gas giants, Jupiter and…

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  • Leo Rising and a Lot of Galaxies

    For the latest video, we are taking a look at galaxies again! We had a brief look at galaxies in an earlier video, very generally, where as this time we are concentrating on galaxies that are visible at the moment. As the sky changes from month to month, new constellations come into the sky earlier…

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  • Ó Eanáir go Feabhra, Cad atá ag Teacht Suas agus Cén Sórt Gealach?

    This video is a bit like a bridge between January and February. It deals with some things coming up in Irish, that the English languages videos won’t get to for another few weeks. You get an advanced look at those details as well if you are reading this. Furthermore, at one point in the video…

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  • The Southern Hemisphere’s Summer Sky

    Winter may already feels like it’s been going on a while, but the coldest part should still be on the way as of the date of posting. The weather gets colder in winter, partly because of the angle at which the Sun’s rays are hitting us (it’s a much shallower angle, less direct), but also…

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  • Mercury, its Greatest Elongation and More!

    Today, the smallest planet is getting a long video dedicated all to it, long for my channel so far at least. Mercury will be coming up on its Greatest Western Elongation soon, so we will be able to see Mercury in the West in the morning, if you’ve stuck around a few of my videos…

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  • An Overview of 2024, Planets and Meteors Showers

    A whole new year is beginning, and we will have plenty to see and look at! Of course we’ll be taking a close look at each month as it comes, and we’ll pay special attention to the big events of the year, such as eclipses, as they come. In this video, we’re going to look…

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  • A Preview of January 2024 and some Teasers for the Upcoming Year

    In this video we look a little further into the New Year, beyond New Year’s Day into January 2024 itself. Most things will remain pretty much the same, many parts of the sky change slowly even from month to month. Saturn is still visible in the evening, but very much only the early evening, along…

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  • A Preview of New Year’s and What’s in the Sky at Midnight

    New Year’s is almost upon us and it’s good to know what to look out for if you’re out under the stars. As it is tradition among many to stay up till midnight on as we go from one year to the next, it’s a perfect night to have a look at the stars and…

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  • Spotting Satellites and the International Space Station

    We are coming up to the 25th of December, Christmas for many people, and so that is the date used mostly in this video, but the topic of the video is satellites. Satellites can be surprisingly easy to spot once you know how, and although they are artificial, unlike most subjects of my videos, they…

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  • Exoplanets and Where to Find Them

    Firstly, this video has a terrible visual artifact around the webcam. I believe I know what went wrong and should be able to prevent it in future videos, but I’d rather post something than skip a week, so here we are. I have updated the version of Stellarium that I am using. Up until recently,…

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