Tag: Mars
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Stargazing in September: Looking Ahead
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the coming month of September, but just before we do, I want to remind everyone of the partial lunar eclipse that is occurring on the 28th of August. We’re starting on the 27th and moving past midnight. Around 2 o’clock the shadow of the Earth will…
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An Old Conjunction of Uranus and Mars: Back in 1988!
Today we are going back in time to take a look at a conjunction. We aren’t going too far back, some of you may know that we have gone back into prehistory to take a look at things before. We’re only going back to 1988 this time and we’re going to be looking for a…
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The Constellations, Saturn, and Mars in Late July!
Today we are going to take a look at the sky for later in the month of July, starting with the stars and the constellations that we’re seeing before moving on to some planets at the end. We are finally getting away from the summer solstice, so the days are getting shorter. That means we’re…
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A Better View of the July Conjunctions
Today we are again going to look at the July sky, and we’re going to concentrate on the planets that are visible at sunset and sunrise. In order to give ourselves a better view, we’re going to move lower on the planet, closer to the equator. We won’t go too far to start with, just…
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Venus Transiting Jupiter (1818) AND Mars Transiting Jupiter (1170)!
Today we’re not going to be taking a look at the solstice. I have taken a look at the solstice in a few different ways over the past couple of pieces, so we’re going to look at something a little bit different today. We are going to take a look at an event that was…
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Conjunction of the Moon, Mars and Saturn: From Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia and More!
Today we are going to take a look at something that I am fairly confident we will not be able to see here in Ireland. Some people might just barely see it from the countryside. Recently, I saw a newspaper headline, or really the headline of an online journal, saying that there would be a…
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Multiple March Conjunctions, and Maybe an Occultation!
Today we are going to be looking at some conjunctions, some close conjunctions and even closer, that are happening over the course of the month of March. Just before we take a look ahead to those, we’re going to get rid of the atmosphere and the ground so we can take a look at the…
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Mars and Venus Superior Conjunction in January: Something We Can’t See
Today we are going to take a look at a couple of conjunctions that we’re not going to see in January. Some things are only visible from certain locations on Earth, for example, any solar eclipse will only be visible for a reasonably narrow portion of the Earth. This is true for many conjunctions as…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS: How Close will it Get? Plus other Comets!
Today, we are going to have a quick review of a couple of the major comets that have come through our sky in the past couple of months and will continue through our sky in a few months to come. We’re also going to take a look at one of those comets, 3I/ATLAS, from a…
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Venus’s Long Elongation and Mars at 2nd Brightest: Future Events
Today we are going to be looking into the future. Just last month, so at least a handful of articles ago, we took a look at various distances into the future to see some interesting events that were coming up, suggested to me by a commenter on YouTube. The big difference about these events is…
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