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  • Today we are going to take a quick look ahead to the month of September. We’ll start with the sunset in early September. Early in September the sky won’t be too different from what we’re seeing in August, but it will be starting to get darker a little bit earlier once we’re a little into…

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  • Today, we are yet again looking into the future and we are yet again looking at an eclipse. However, we’re going to be looking not particularly far into the future, as you can see here, we’ve gone forward to the 6th of September and we will be looking at an eclipse that will be visible…

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  • Today, we are going to look at the sky for August. We’re beginning with the morning sky in late August this year. There are plenty of planets and some interesting conjunctions on the 20th. We’ll cover just a couple of the things that are still coming up this month before we take a look a…

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  • Today, we are yet again going to be looking into the future, into the reasonably distant future this time, but not quite as far as some previous videos. We will be looking forward into the 2030s, and we will also be looking a few months into the future, forward to November, in this case November…

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  • Today, we are going to be taking a look at the planet Mercury. Some of this will cover general features of the smallest planet in the solar system, but we are going to be looking at Mercury in particular because of its greatest elongation coming up on the 19th of August. From midday on the…

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  • Today, we’re going to be taking a look at the Perseid meteor shower and the Eta Eridanid meteor shower, along with a couple of others. To begin with, before we move into darkness, before we move into the countryside, before we do anything else, I’m going to set the number of meteors in the Stellarium…

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  • Today, we are going to once again be taking a look into the far future. I have done this on previous occasions where we take a look, often quite far, into the future, and we will be going quite far into the future this time as well. The last event that we took a look…

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  • The Stars in August!

    Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for August yet again, but we’re going to concentrate on the constellations and a couple of the other features of the August sky. We’ll start just a little after sunset, at 11:30. The sky is almost as dark as it’s going to…

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  • Today, we are going to take a quick look at a few different meteor showers, beginning with the meteor showers that are peaking at the moment in late July. Then we’ll take a look ahead to the meteor shower that will be peaking once we come into August. We’re starting with sunset on the 28th…

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  • Today, we are going to be taking a look at the coming month of August. We will start on the first day of August, Lá Fhéile Lughnasadh, as it’s known in Ireland. Lughnasadh is the month of August and the first day is the Festival of August. We’re finally getting out of summertime, so the…

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