Tag: comet
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The Geminids and 3200 Phaethon: December Meteor Shower
Today we are going to be looking at a meteor shower that is coming up in the month of December. Taking a look at the sky for mid-December, just coming up to 8 o’clock Gemini is already in the sky. We’re looking for the Geminids, the Geminid Meteor Shower and the radiant is up in…
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Comets and Meteor Showers: The Leonids and 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
Today we are going to begin by looking back to the Leonid meteor shower which happened, which peaked just a couple of days ago. To see the radiant of this meteor shower nice and high, we need the constellation Leo to be up, which it is now at about 3 o’clock in the morning. With…
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Looking back: Halley’s Comet in 1986 and Comet Encke
Today, we are going to hop into the past, but we’re not going to go particularly distantly into the past. Going into the past isn’t something that I regularly do on this channel, but it is something that we have done before and I may do more regularly, there are some interesting things that have…
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Comets and Meteor Showers: The Orionids and Halley’s Comet
Today, we’re starting by looking at the sky for October 21st. We’re looking at the sky reasonably late, just before midnight. We’re looking at the 21st because we are taking a look for the Orionid meteor shower, and they peak on October 21st. This meteor shower have got a maximum Zenith Hourly Rate of about…
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Late October Sky: Comets and More | An Spéir Déanach i mí Dheireadh Fómhair: Cóiméid agus Níos Mó
Today, we will be looking at the sky for the second half of the month of October and we’re going to start in the morning, rather than at sunset as we usually do. Looking at the sky in the southeast before sunrise on the 17th, the planets Jupiter and Venus are prominently visible. It is…
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Comets in October: 3I/ATLAS and C/2025 A6 Lemmon!
Today, we are going to take a look at a couple of comets, including the interstellar comet 3I ATLAS. However, we’re going to start with a comet that was discovered much earlier this year, Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. From the first part of the name, C/2025, we know this was a comet that was discovered…
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Cóiméad F2 SWAN agus a Nuacht | Comet F2 SWAN and its News
Today we will be looking for a comet, a massive rock in space, the comet C/2025 F2 SWAN. You may have noticed that the attached video is in irish, and I did toy with the idea of calling SWAN, the Solar Wind ANisotropies instrument, “ealla”, the Irish word for swan. However, this is an acronym,…
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Putting Comet 2025 F2 (SWAN) in Stellarium
Today, we are going to be taking a look for and at a new comet. The comet in question was discovered quite recently, just last month in March. The comet is called C/2025 F2 (SWAN). That’s C/ for “comet” and 2025 because it was discovered in 2025, that part is nice and easy of course.…
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The December Solstice: Winter or Summer?
Today we will continue looking at the upcoming December solstice, as it is now just a couple of days away. However, we are also going to look at the solstice from the equator and from the southern hemisphere. Here in the northern hemisphere we are looking at the winter solstice. From Ireland, the Sun is…
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November Meteors and Comet S1 Atlas Update
Today we will be looking ahead at the meteor showers that are coming up in November as well as quickly revisiting the Greatest Elongation of Mercury and taking a quick look at what could have been with Comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS. Mercury will reach its greatest eastern elongation later this month, meaning it will be…
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