Tag: moon
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The Moon and Constellations in July: No Telescope Needed
Given that the past couple of videos heavily featured objects that at least require a telescope to see, I decided that in this piece I’d go through some of the things visible to just your eyes in later July. Telescopes and binoculars are, of course, wonderfully useful tools for astronomy and reveal a lot that…
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How the Sky Looks Using Binoculars: Galaxies, Nebulae, Planets and even Moons!
In most of my videos, I zoom in as far as is necessary to see whatever details I want to talk about. In real life, you are usually limited by the magnification of whatever instrument you are using, be it a telescope a binoculars. People don’t often associate binoculars with astronomy, instead binoculars normally get…
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A Look Ahead to the Sky in July
As we approach the end of June, we’re going to take a look ahead to what’s coming in July. Of course, at the very beginning, the sky won’t look too different, but we will look through the whole month. We will still start at the beginning of the month and the beginning of the night,…
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The Dark Side, or Far Side, of the Moon and Sampling
Today we are looking, once again, at the Moon. For a change, we are going to take a look mostly at the side of the Moon that we don’t normally get to see. The Chinese Space Agency, or the China National Space Administration, has recently landed a lander, Chang’e 6, on the Far Side of…
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Icy Moons: What, Where and Why do we Care?
Recently, we took a look at the difference between the gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter and the ice giants like Neptune and Uranus. Today, we are going to look at something else icy: icy moons. We already passed by an icy moon in the ice giant video, Triton, Neptune’s largest moon. Triton is tough…
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June and the Summer Solstice
In the previous video we took a look forward to the very early part of June, particularly the planets that we will get to see in the morning. Despite Mercury and Jupiter being too close to the Sun for us to see in Ireland, from other locations four planets would be visible in the sky…
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Solar Day, Sidereal Day, and the Parade of Planets
I mentioned in the last article that there are different ways to measure a day, among them are the sidereal and solar days. This little tidbit was not mentioned in the previous video attached to that article, just one of the many little bonus facts readers of the website get. In the above video, I…
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What we Can See in Late May and Early June
At the start of May, we looked ahead to the whole month, but now as we approach the end I think it’s worth a second look. Even though the weather is getting hotter, the Earth is actually approaching its furthest from the Sun in our elliptical orbit. How close we are to the Sun in…
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Na Gealaí, nú Gealán agus an Spéir Anois
Today, as we come up to the end of May and beginning of June, we are going to review the kinds of things that are visible in the sky, starting by looking forward the 24th of this month and the Full Moon. The Moon can be quite bright, especially when it’s full, and the Irish…
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Transits of Venus and an Eclipse on Mars!
Continuing the theme set by last week’s video, where we looked at the transit of Mercury coming up in 2032 and the return of Halley’s Comet in 2061, we are going to look even further into the future this time. the next transit of Venus that will be visible from the Earth is almost 100…
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