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  • Some Space Words in Irish | Cúpla Focail Spáis i nGaeilge

    Today I am going to go through a little bit of Irish language vocabulary or foclóir to do with the sky. Foclóir is also the word for dictionary, but you can also use it for vocabulary. I’ve seen stór focail for vocabulary, but that feels more like a word bank, like in a word search.

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  • Truailliú Solas + Féile Spéartha Dorcha | Light Pollution + a Dark Skies Festival

    Today we will be talking about light pollution. I am after talking about light pollution before on this YouTube channel and I will talk about light pollution again in the future. Nonetheless, I am going to talk about light pollution for this show as well. Very quickly to begin, before talking about light pollution, we

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  • Na Dhá Urú i mí na Márta! | Both of the Eclipses in March!

    Today, we will be looking at the eclipses, a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse, as we have one of each coming up in March. The first eclipse, the lunar one, is occurring on the 14th, but very early in the morning, so we will start on the 13th with sunset instead. The Moon is

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  • The Night Sky in March: Overview

    Today we are going to take a more general look ahead to the month of March. We’ve got some eclipses coming up, which is very exciting, we have both a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse if you are in the right part of the planet. Even though the parade of planets is over, Mercury,

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  • My 23rd Speedlang Challenge Entry: Ħáŕŕå

    Hi everyone, for the first time on this website, I am going to go through a language that I have constructed, a conlang. I often make languages just for fun, but this one was prompted. Today, I am going to go through my submission for the 23rd Speedlang Challenge, a language I am calling Ħáŕŕå.

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  • The Start of March, the Newest Moon and Eclipses!

    Today we are going to be looking at the very end of February along with a quick look ahead to March. Normally, I take a look at the coming month without finishing up the previous month, I don’t normally pay too much attention to the final day of the month. However, with the parade of

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  • Pharáid na Pláinéid le Gach Ceann le Fheiscint | The Parade of the Planets with All of them Visible

    For today, we will be looking at the planets, and especially we will be looking at the Parade of the Planets or the March of the Planets. The attached video is in Irish, with English subtitles of course, and both parade and march seem to be words borrowed from English. Parade seems to b associated

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  • The Highest Possible Noon

    In the last piece, I mentioned that we are coming up to the equinox. We are at least now closer to the coming equinox than we are to midwinter. If we were to move back into the recent past, back to midwinter, we’d see the Sun come down to its lowest noon high point. Moving

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  • The Southern Hemisphere’s Parade of Planets

    We are finally coming up to the parade of planets. The full parade of planets with Mercury and Saturn above the horizon should be visible from as early as this weekend, if you are in the right location. We will be going through the potential view for a few southerly latitudes in today’s piece. To

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  • Valentine’s Night from Both Hemispheres

    Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for Valentine’s night. With all of the looking ahead to the Parade of Planets at the very end of the month, I have skipped over this reasonably famous date in the middle of the month, which is of course, the 14th of

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