Tag: moon
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Looking into February and the Moon!
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the month of February, starting of course with the 1st of February this weekend. So, a Happy Imbolc or Imbolg, Lá Féile Bríd, or St Brigid’s Day, whatever you would like to call the first day of February, it is a festival of some sort in…
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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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Late December Sky: The Geminids Meteor Shower and the Moon
Today we are going to be continuing to look at the very end of this year We won’t look forward into next year just yet but we will look at some things other than the planets. There are of course plenty of planets up top be seen all month long, with Venus, Saturn, the Moon…
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Deireadh Samhain agus ar aghaidh go Nollag / The End of November and on to December
The video accompanying this piece is in Irish, but I will provide this write up and the subtitles of the video in English as usual. Just like the previous English language piece, we are already half way through November and for that reason we will be looking at the end of November and the start…
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From November to December: Jupiter at Opposition and More Meteor Showers!
As we continue to move later in the month, we are now just past the date where a lot of the cool stuff happened. We are just past the 17th, a little, which is around the time that Mercury had its greatest elongation and it’s the date where the Leonids would have peaked. AS such,…
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A Look Ahead to the November Night Sky
Today, we will be taking a quick look ahead to the upcoming month of November to see what we can see in the sky. As I have mentioned frequently in a few of the recent videos, such as when we were discussing comets and then nova that was supposed to occur in September, predicting the…
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The October Supermoon: the Most Super of the Year?
In answer to the title: In terms of distance, yes it is! Today we are going to be looking at the Full Moon and yet another supermoon. I have mentioned in previous pieces that for a couple of months now, at least since August, it’s felt like every Full Moon has been a supermoon. Technically,…
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Earth’s (Temporary) Second Moon! Asteroid 2024 PT5
Today we are finally going to take a look at Earth’s second moon or at least our temporary second moon, asteroid 2024 PT5. In a recent previous piece, I talked about some of the classes of near-earth objects, like the Apollonian asteroids, the Aten group and more. There are a few objects that go around…
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Some Types of Near Earth Objects.
Today we are going to take another look at asteroids, focusing on a couple of particular subgroups of them. In a recent piece we looked broadly at comets and asteroid, as minor planets or small solar system bodies, as two groups that almost blend into each other. Today, we’re going to be looking at a…
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