Tag: moon
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Saturn’s Moons Janus and Epimetheus Orbit Very Strangely
Today’s video, we are going to take a look at a couple of Saturn’s moons. Saturn is on its way back into the morning sky. For many people, those a little closer to the equator, Saturn is already back into the morning sky, but this early in May, Saturn is still just barely out of…
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May Stargazing: A Blue Moon, Meteor Shower and the Milky Way!
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the month of May, starting on the 1st of May. This is May Day, or Lá Fhéile Bealtaine in Irish, Bealtaine being the month of May. We’re going to start with sunset on the 1st, because the 1st of May is a Full Moon. We can…
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Earthshine: How to See it This Month!
Today we are going to quickly review what some of the planets are doing in April, now that we’re getting a little bit closer to their conjunctions, and we’re also going to discuss a phenomenon known as Earthshine. We’ll begin with the Sun setting into the west for the 18th. We’re just past the New…
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Where is Artemis II? The Darkside of the Moon and Ephemeris Data from JPL!
Today we are going to take a quick look yet again at the Moon and talk a little bit more about the Artemis II mission to the Moon, the first crewed mission to the Moon in decades. To take a look at the Moon, we’re going to have to wait for it to come up.…
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The April Full Moon: Pink Moon, Artemis II and Easter
Today we are going to be looking at the Moon. We are going to start by taking a look at sunset yesterday, so we’re taking a look at the 1st of April or April Fool’s Day, which was the date of the Full Moon this month. It has just happened, last night the Moon was…
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Jupiter’s Moons, Lightspeed and a 2092 Conjunction!
Today, we are going to look ahead to an event that is coming up in the future. This time we are only looking a few decades ahead, to 2092. For those of you who are regular readers of these posts, you know that we take a look into the future for future events occasionally, although…
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The Night Sky for April 2026
Today we are going to take a look into the month of April to see what will be coming up in the sky. Taking a look firstly sunset on the 1st of April, Venus is nice and bright to the West, and also quite far from the Sun in the sky, so it will be…
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Where is it an Occultation? Regulus and the Moon!
Today we are going to take a closer look at a conjunction which is really an occultation, the occultation of Regulus by the Moon. In a piece a little earlier this month I went through several of the close conjunctions, planetary conjunctions and this lunar-stellar conjunction, that are visible during March. There was another piece…
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The March Equinox: Sunset, Sunrise and the Exact Moment of Equinox
Today we are going to be taking a quick look at the equinox. Of course the equinox is the date where the length of the day and the length of the night are equal and the equinox is occurring on the 20th of March. The equinox occurs on the 20th of March pretty much every…
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Sun-Saturn Superior Conjunction!
Today we are going to be looking at yet another conjunction. This conjunction is a little bit different from the conjunctions that we’ve taken a look at recently. Among those conjunctions was a conjunction of Saturn and Venus. That was at its best at around the seventh, so just past as of the date of…
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