Tag: moon
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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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A Look Ahead to October: Another Supermoon!
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the night sky for the month of October. As always, my default perspective is from here in Ireland, and because I will be talking about the sky at night from here in Ireland, I won’t be dealing with the annular solar eclipse that is going to…
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An Spéir ar Oíche Chultúir 2024 / The Sky on Culture Night 2024
In todays piece we will be looking at the sky for Culture Night. Culture Night is the 20th of September, the day after the day this piece will have gone up on this website. Just in case you are getting to this article a few days later, most of the details presented here will remain…
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The September Lunar Eclipse and October Solar Eclipse!
After alluding to these events last time, we are today going to take a look at the upcoming partial lunar and annular solar eclipse. The Partial lunar eclipse will occur in September, but we will look all the way forward into early October to catch the solar eclipse as well. All lunar eclipses happen during…
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A Look Ahead to September: 6 Planets and a Supermoon!
As usual, now that we’re coming to the end of the month, we’re going to take a look ahead to the next one. September is going to be a jam packed month, so this overview will skip over some of the details, but I will return to them as they occur. We will begin as…
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The Truth about the Full Blue Super Moon
Today, for a change, we are going to be talking about something that is happening today, on the date of this publication, really something from yesterday, the 19th of August. However, there is no need to worry if you’re getting to this piece a day or two late. In fact this piece is specifically about…
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