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An Spéir ar Oíche Shamhna! / The Sky on Halloween!
For this piece we will be looking at the sky for Halloween, and a little bit into November as well. The attached video is in Irish, but with English subtitles if you need them. As such, a couple of things do get lost in translation. The Irish for Halloween is “Oíche Shamhna” or Samhain Night.…
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October’s Pair of Comets: 2023 A3 and 2024 S1
Today, we are finally going to deal with the comets that are visible at the moment. Depending on where you are and whether or not you use a telescope, these comets have technically been visible for a while. Now that they are coming up to their best and visible to the naked eye, we are…
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Asteroids and Comets, What makes them Different?
In today’s piece we are going to talk a little bit about asteroids and a little bit about comets. Firstly however, in the most recent piece I showed off some of the basic features of Stellarium, it was more of a walk through of the different kinds of things that Stellarium can do than an…
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Looking Forward: Comet Halley in 2061 and Mercury’s Transit in 2032
As promised last time, we are going to be looking far ahead into the future to take a look at Halley’s Comet. Halley’s Comet has a period of about 75 years, though this varies due to the planets effect as it passes them. Right now, we have to wait 37 years for it to return…
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Comets Continued: Time to Say Goodbye to 12P/Pons-Brooks
While comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was making its approach to the Sun, it became visible to the naked eye from the Northern Hemisphere, under good conditions at least. It was also quite close to Jupiter in the sky during the recent total solar eclipse visible from North America. This lead to the comet getting a lot 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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Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks: Some Ways to See it, Where and When
Today, we’re going to be taking a brief and general look at the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. As with all comets, and most things in the sky, there is a pattern to the names, 12P for being the 12th periodic comet and Pons-Brooks for the surnames of the two astronomers recognized for its discovery. This comet has…
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