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  • The Occultation of Neptune by Mercury in 2067

    Today, we are going to yet again take a look into the far future for some interesting events. We will be looking quite far into the future this time, decades and decades into the future, not just later this year or in a couple of years as we’ve looked at in the most recent couple…

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  • Breith Réalta | The Birth of a Star

    For today, we will be looking at stars. I know that we look the stars in every piece, one way or the other. Even if we are talking more about the planets or something like that, the stars are always behind them, the stars are in the sky. We’re still looking at them while we…

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  • Uranus and Neptune: Lonely Ice Giants

    Today we are going to take a closer look at the planets Neptune and Uranus. We have taken a look at both planets before, each in their own separate post on this website, so if you want to take a look back at the pieces dedicated to Neptune and Uranus individually, they are still up…

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  • Titan versus the Icy Moons: Different Biospheres

    Today, we are going to be taking a look at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. We may take a look at a couple of other moons as well, but Saturn’s moons are more reasonably visible at this time of the year than Jupiters. Around the middle of the month, the Moon is pretty close to Saturn,…

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  • The Moon in July, a Harvest Moon?

    Today, we are going to take a look at the Moon. We are coming up to the Full Moon for the month of July, so we’re going to take a look at how the Moon is going to behave from here to the end of the month. As some of you may remember, I am…

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  • Venus and Regulus Align in 2044 and a Bright Mars in 2050

    Today, we are going to continue looking into the future for some interesting future events. If you’d like to know what the sky is going to look like for July, just take a look back at a couple of previous posts on this website. I looked at the night sky in July, what different things…

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  • Two July Conjunctions! (One in 2037)

    Today, we are going to take a look at some upcoming events based on the suggestions of various commenters on my YouTube videos. In celebration of hitting 500 subscribers on YouTube, I am planning on making a Q&A video. As such, I am looking for any questions that anybody might have that I may be…

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  • The Night Sky in July: A Look Ahead

    Today, we are going to have a very quick look through the month of July. Some of you may have already seen a quick look at the coming month of July here thanks to the article accompanying the Irish language video I recently posted to my YouTube channel. If you go back a few posts,…

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  • Thank You For 500 Subscribers! Venus, Jupiter & Sirius Together and The September Occultation!

    First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who has subscribed to my YouTube channel. I am delighted to be up at 500 subscribers, a little bit more now, so hopefully that number will continue to grow. In some of the most recent installments, I have taken a look at things that…

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  • An Spéir san Oíche i Mí Iúil | The Sky at Night in the Month of July

    Today we will be looking ahead to the month of July. The first thing we will look at is something that we already know about. I’m going to talk about it again, but I have recently dealt with Mercury and its greatest elongation from the Sun. If you look back on the recent articles on…

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