Tag: moon
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The Night Sky in July: A Look Ahead
Today, we are going to have a very quick look through the month of July. Some of you may have already seen a quick look at the coming month of July here thanks to the article accompanying the Irish language video I recently posted to my YouTube channel. If you go back a few posts,…
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Thank You For 500 Subscribers! Venus, Jupiter & Sirius Together and The September Occultation!
First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who has subscribed to my YouTube channel. I am delighted to be up at 500 subscribers, a little bit more now, so hopefully that number will continue to grow. In some of the most recent installments, I have taken a look at things that…
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A Conjunction in 2037 and This Year! (Possibly an Occultation)
Today we are going to yet again look into the future to look at some interesting upcoming events. We are going to start by looking just a little further ahead this year, we will just be looking forward to the 19th of September. We’re going to go forward to the appropriate date and we’re going…
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Parade of Planets 2028 and Mars/Mercury Occultation 2079
Today we are going to yet again take a look into the distant future, or not so distant future to begin with, to take a look at some upcoming events. These are yet more events that have been suggested by commenters, though one is a review of a previously observed event. Some of you may…
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Twilight and the Moon in June
Today we are going to have a look ahead to the coming month. We are going to look ahead to June, which is the month of the summer solstice, but we’re not going to talk about the solstice itself too much just yet. Just before we go all the way forward to June, we’re going…
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May Sky Overview: Constellations and the Milky Way
Today we are going to be taking a look at the month of May generally. We will be looking generally at the month of May and taking a look at the phases of the Moon during different parts of the month as well. Just in case you didn’t catch it a couple of pieces ago,…
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Future Conjunctions: Looking Far Ahead
Today we are going to be looking forward. In the previous video we looked back to varying degrees and discussed things that were dealt with in the past, specifically figuring out the date of Easter and its relation to calendars. Today, however, we are going to be looking into the future to varying degrees, to…
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The April Lyrids
Today we are going to look just a little further ahead into April to take a look at the Lyrid meteor shower. The Lyrid with meteor shower is going to be peaking pretty late in April, the 22nd/23rd, so we’re going to have to push pretty late to get to the peak. The Lyrids do…
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The March Solar Eclipse
Today we are going to take a closer look at the partial solar eclipse that we will be able to see from here in Ireland on Saturday the 29th of March. We will begin looking at the whole sky for midday on Saturday the 29th of March. The eclipse will have just finished at this…
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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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