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  • Today we are going to take a look into the month of April to see what will be coming up in the sky. Taking a look firstly sunset on the 1st of April, Venus is nice and bright to the West, and also quite far from the Sun in the sky, so it will be…

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  • Today we are going to take a closer look at a conjunction which is really an occultation, the occultation of Regulus by the Moon. In a piece a little earlier this month I went through several of the close conjunctions, planetary conjunctions and this lunar-stellar conjunction, that are visible during March. There was another piece…

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  • Sè Yblááfkaky ( /se˩ ɨˈblɑːf˥ˌka.kɨ/ ) is the language which I created for the 24th Speed Lang challenge, but I don’t think I ever submitted it. This is a language that I created for the challenge, I completed the challenge, I wrote all of the things that needed to be written, and then just never…

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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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