Tag: mercury
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Mercury’s August Morning Elongation and Brightness
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the planet Mercury. Some of this will cover general features of the smallest planet in the solar system, but we are going to be looking at Mercury in particular because of its greatest elongation coming up on the 19th of August. From midday on the…
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The Occultation of Neptune by Mercury in 2067
Today, we are going to yet again take a look into the far future for some interesting events. We will be looking quite far into the future this time, decades and decades into the future, not just later this year or in a couple of years as we’ve looked at in the most recent couple…
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Mercury: Forewarning Before its Greatest Elongation!
Today we are going to take a quick look for the planet Mercury. In a recent video, I just about spotted Mercury just above the sunset towards the end of June. Now that we are into June, of course the sunset is going to be getting later, as late as it can get. That means…
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Early Morning Planets: Better from Elsewhere
Happy April Fool’s Day everyone, don’t worry I won’t be pulling any pranks. Today we are going to take a look at Mercury, Saturn and Venus in the morning. In a recent piece I mentioned that Mercury is coming to its greatest elongation and how that wouldn’t really be visible for us here in Ireland.…
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The Spring Equinox and a View from Mercury
Today we are going to talk about the equinox. The date of posting, the 20th, is the equinox, so we are coming through the equinox right now. This is the vernal equinox or the spring equinox for the northern hemisphere and the autumnal equinox or the autumn equinox for the Southern Hemisphere. It could be…
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The Parade of Planets is Yet to Come and Earth in Retrograde!
Having taken a look at Mars at opposition and how Mars enters into a strange, temporary, apparent retrograde motion during that time, we are going to take a look at the Earth doing the same. Of course, to see the Earth at opposition, we need to head to Venus or Mercury. However, before that I…
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The Light of the Moon, Venus and their Shadows
Today I am going to hop through a couple of topics thanks to an idea inspired by a comment on the previous video on my YouTube channel. It is a bit of a journey, but we are going to begin by taking a look at the night sky for just a couple of nights ago,…
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Looking into 2025: Eclipses and More!
Today we are going to continue looking at the year ahead. We will cover one or two things that are happening in January, things that I mentioned in the last video, but we are also going to look ahead to see some of the interesting things that are coming up later in 2025. First off,…
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November Meteors and Comet S1 Atlas Update
Today we will be looking ahead at the meteor showers that are coming up in November as well as quickly revisiting the Greatest Elongation of Mercury and taking a quick look at what could have been with Comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS. Mercury will reach its greatest eastern elongation later this month, meaning it will be…
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A Quick Look into March: The Equinox, Mercury and a Conjunction in February!
We are very early into the month of March, so we’re going to take a look forward at a few of the events it will contain. However, we’re also going to review a couple of the things that are happening now, at the end of February. Most of these are occurrences that have been mentioned…
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