Tag: constellations
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The Ursid Meteor Shower and Late December Sky
Today we are going to take a look at the night sky for later December, particularly the Ursid meteor shower coming up on the 21st/22nd of December. I will also go over the major constellations that are visible. We will start with sunset on the 16th. The sky hasn’t changed too drastically since early December,…
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Winter Stargazing: Stars and Constellations
Today we are going to take a look at the winter night sky very generally. We’ll start just around sunset in early December, but we’ll go through the night and across a few months around midwinter. As we’re going to be taking a general look at the night sky, we’re going to ignore the planets…
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Meteor Showers, and More, in November
Today we will continue to look at the November sky. We are now into November and we’re going to start by taking a look at the sky on the 5th of November. Just as the Sun sets, the radiants of the first meteor showers of the month will already be up. Low in the east…
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The Motion of the Constellations
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky in October. We will be looking at the constellations, but we aren’t going to stick with just this month. Rather, we are going to see how the constellations will shift from this month into winter. You may have seen my previous piece…
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Ancient Constellations: The Sky in the 1800s BCE
Today, we are going backwards in time! We are going to go into the past instead of looking into the future as we normally do. I have taken a look at ancient skies before, but that was quite a while ago. We are going all the way back to the 1800s in this video, and…
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September: Stars and Saturn
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky in September again. We will be looking at the sky for the month coming up, but we will be concentrating on the stars. There are so many exciting things coming up in September that in my previews of this September so far…
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The Stars in August!
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for August yet again, but we’re going to concentrate on the constellations and a couple of the other features of the August sky. We’ll start just a little after sunset, at 11:30. The sky is almost as dark as it’s going to…
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A Better Look at the June Constellations
Today we are going to take a closer look at the constellations that we’re going to see over the course of the month. I have already taken a look at the planets and the constellations in June, back in May we looked ahead to this month and the title of the piece was the Planets…
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May Sky Overview: Constellations and the Milky Way
Today we are going to be taking a look at the month of May generally. We will be looking generally at the month of May and taking a look at the phases of the Moon during different parts of the month as well. Just in case you didn’t catch it a couple of pieces ago,…
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Late April Constellations
Today, we are going to take a look at the late April night sky. We’re going to look at the general features of the night sky, the planets, the stars, the constellations and how they look now that we’re coming into the later part of April. Speaking of coming into April, we are in “summer…
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