Tag: light pollution
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A Look Ahead to the Month of February / The February Night Sky
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the night sky for the coming month of February. There are a couple of interesting things happening in February, the greatest elongation of Mercury on the 19th and an annular solar eclipse on the 12th in particular. However, because the annular solar eclipse is mostly going…
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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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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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Déshúiligh agus Easpa Truailliú Solas | Binoculars and a Lack of Light Pollution
For this show we are looking ahead a couple of days to the end of January, as we have a New Moon at the end of January. As I’m sure you know, certainly if you’ve been following my content for a while, if you are trying to see things out in the countryside, in true…
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Dark Skies and Light Pollution: What Does it Look Like?
Another video celebrating dark skies week and looking at light pollution. The previous Irish language video on this channel also talked about light pollution and dark skies, but in this video we won’t just look at pristine skies with low light pollution, we’re also going to look at areas with much higher incidence of light…
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