Tag: irish
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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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Oppositions and an Eclipse around the Equinox | Urchomhaireacht agus Urú timpeall an Comhnocht
Today, we will be looking at the sky for late September, especially around the day of the equinox. I won’t talk about the equinox itself that much, but you can search my previous posts to find a few more focused discussions of it. I have talked about the late September sky already, however the attached…
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Eclipses from the Sun and the Moon | Uruithe ón Ghrian agus an Ghealach
Today, we will be looking at a couple of eclipses. We will be looking at the Moon going in front of the Sun and also we will be looking at the Moon going behind the Earth. We are looking at some of the same eclipses we’ve looked at recently, but from a different perspective. We…
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Breith Réalta | The Birth of a Star
For today, we will be looking at stars. I know that we look the stars in every piece, one way or the other. Even if we are talking more about the planets or something like that, the stars are always behind them, the stars are in the sky. We’re still looking at them while we…
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An Spéir san Oíche i Mí Iúil | The Sky at Night in the Month of July
Today we will be looking ahead to the month of July. The first thing we will look at is something that we already know about. I’m going to talk about it again, but I have recently dealt with Mercury and its greatest elongation from the Sun. If you look back on the recent articles on…
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Solas na Gréine ag Meánoíche | Sunlight at Midnight
Today we will be looking ahead to the solstice and looking at sunlight visible at midnight. The attached video is an Irish language video, though English subtitles are provided as a convenience. We are looking ahead to the sky for summer, and during the summer Ireland uses Summer Time. Due to daylight savings, the time…
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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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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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