Tag: moon
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An Eclipse from the Earth, Sun, and Moon: 2186 Eclipse!
Today, we are yet again heading far into the future to take a look at an event that won’t be occurring for hundreds of years. We are looking all the way forward to 2186 and we’re going to be looking for the 16th of July. Starting as normal, from Ireland and during the day, it…
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Meteor Showers, and More, in November
Today we will continue to look at the November sky. We are now into November and we’re going to start by taking a look at the sky on the 5th of November. Just as the Sun sets, the radiants of the first meteor showers of the month will already be up. Low in the east…
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A Preview of the November Night Sky
Today, we are going to take a look ahead to the coming month of November to see what the sky is going to look like and what kind of objects we’re going to be able to see. We’ll briefly start with sunset on the 1st of November. This is of course a reasonably similar sky…
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Asteroid 2025 PN7: A Temporary Moon
In several recent pieces we have taken a look at a few different comets and a lot of them were discovered just this year. For example, Comet 3I/ATLAS, which is an interstellar comet, it’s full name is 2025 3I/ATLAS, it was only discovered this year. In order to take a look at this comet in…
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October Meteor Showers: The Orionids and Draconids!
Today, we are yet again looking to the October sky, and we’re going to look at a couple of the minor events that we skipped over in the previous piece. I mentioned last time that the Moon is having a reasonable conjunction with Saturn early in the month, and we’re coming forward to the Full…
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A Look Ahead to October: A Supermoon, Occultation and Conjunctions
Today, we are going to take a look into the month of October. We’ve already seen so much of the late September sky, we’re going to go a little bit into October, rather than starting on the 1st. We’re going to jump a couple of days into the month in order to see some of…
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September: Stars and Saturn
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky in September again. We will be looking at the sky for the month coming up, but we will be concentrating on the stars. There are so many exciting things coming up in September that in my previews of this September so far…
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Eclipses from the Sun and the Moon | Uruithe ón Ghrian agus an Ghealach
Today, we will be looking at a couple of eclipses. We will be looking at the Moon going in front of the Sun and also we will be looking at the Moon going behind the Earth. We are looking at some of the same eclipses we’ve looked at recently, but from a different perspective. We…
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A Look Ahead to September: An Eclipse, An Occultation and Oppositions!
Today we are going to take a quick look ahead to the month of September. We’ll start with the sunset in early September. Early in September the sky won’t be too different from what we’re seeing in August, but it will be starting to get darker a little bit earlier once we’re a little into…
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The Blood Moon: September Lunar and Solar Eclipse 2025!
Today, we are yet again looking into the future and we are yet again looking at an eclipse. However, we’re going to be looking not particularly far into the future, as you can see here, we’ve gone forward to the 6th of September and we will be looking at an eclipse that will be visible…
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