Tag: April
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Comet 141P-D/Machholz and 26P/Grig-Skjellerup: Their Orbits and Meteor Showers
Today we are finally going to take a look at Comet 141P/Machholz. I mentioned this comet a few pieces ago when we were taking a look at the conjunction of planets that is visible early in the morning if you are closer to the equator. This comet and the planets will be above the horizon…
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Earthshine: How to See it This Month!
Today we are going to quickly review what some of the planets are doing in April, now that we’re getting a little bit closer to their conjunctions, and we’re also going to discuss a phenomenon known as Earthshine. We’ll begin with the Sun setting into the west for the 18th. We’re just past the New…
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Stephan’s Quintet, the Carina Nebula, JWST and Lagrangian Points!
Today we are going to take a look at a variety of deep sky objects, starting with a group of galaxies. Stellarium, as I mentioned in the previous piece, it did recently have an update and that update included new listings for things and hopefully it may contain some new images as well. We’re looking…
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April Constellations and Various Sky Cultures in Stellarium
Today we are going to be taking a look at the constellations that we’re going to see over the course of the month of April. Taking a look at the sky for mid-April and looking at the daytime sky, the Sun is almost directly in the south at just about 1:30, because we are at…
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April Comets: Where and When to see C/2026 A1 MAPS and C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
Today, as promised, we are going to take a look at a couple of comets. We’re beginning on the 3rd of April, which is just a little before Comet 2026 A1 MAPS reaches perihelion. MAPS is the name of the observation program, really the initials of the astronomers involved, that discovered this comet. This comet…
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The Night Sky for April 2026
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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New Comets: C/2026 B2 Sun-Gao and C/2026 A1 MAPS
Today we are going to be taking a look at a few comets. The comets that we’re going to be taking a look at are rather newly discovered, I had to add them to Stellarium. I’ve gone into greater detail about that process before, but I will briefly outline it again, for the second comet.…
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Early Morning Planets: Better from Elsewhere
Happy April Fool’s Day everyone, don’t worry I won’t be pulling any pranks. Today we are going to take a look at Mercury, Saturn and Venus in the morning. In a recent piece I mentioned that Mercury is coming to its greatest elongation and how that wouldn’t really be visible for us here in Ireland.…
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The Night Sky in April: A Quick Look Ahead
Today we are going to take a quick look ahead into the coming month of April. April is coming up, and there aren’t too many particularly crazy events happening in April. It will be after the solar eclipse that’s coming up at the end of this month, which I will cover before the end of…
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A Quick Look into April: What’s Coming Up in the Sky Next Month?
As we begin to come into April, I do need to mention Dark Skies and light pollution, as the first week of April is Dark Skies Week here in Ireland. The very last video I posted, an Irish language video, was all about light pollution and how much better the sky is without it, and…
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