Tag: moon
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Comets Continued: Time to Say Goodbye to 12P/Pons-Brooks
While comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was making its approach to the Sun, it became visible to the naked eye from the Northern Hemisphere, under good conditions at least. It was also quite close to Jupiter in the sky during the recent total solar eclipse visible from North America. This lead to the comet getting a lot of…
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A Closer Look at the Saturn: The Ringed Planet
Now that Saturn is returning to the early morning sky, even becoming visible to the naked eye in the city, we are going to take a closer look at the planet. It is still tricky to see from higher latitudes, but as long as you are up early enough and have a clear view of…
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A Look Ahead to May: What We Can See as the Nights Get Shorter
We are back to looking a month ahead, to see what the sky will look like in May as we come to the end of April. In the last video, about a few meteor showers, we touched on the Eta Aquariids, which are one of the big astronomical events in May, but the sky is…
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The End of April and Meteor Showers
As we approach the end of April, the sky has continued to shift and change, so we will be taking a look at what is visible where now, as the nights begin to shorten. We will also take a look brief look at the Lyrid meteor show that occurs at the end of April. Back…
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Dark Skies and Light Pollution: What Does it Look Like?
Another video celebrating dark skies week and looking at light pollution. The previous Irish language video on this channel also talked about light pollution and dark skies, but in this video we won’t just look at pristine skies with low light pollution, we’re also going to look at areas with much higher incidence of light…
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The April 8th Total Solar Eclipse!
As we are now into the month of April, it is time to take a look at the eclipse. The total solar eclipse will be occurring on April 8th, just a week after this video. This eclipse has been called the Great American Eclipse and it will be visible to some degree over a large…
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A Quick Look into April: What’s Coming Up in the Sky Next Month?
As we begin to come into April, I do need to mention Dark Skies and light pollution, as the first week of April is Dark Skies Week here in Ireland. The very last video I posted, an Irish language video, was all about light pollution and how much better the sky is without it, and…
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Féile na Spéire Dorcha agus na Gaeltachtaí
In almost every video I post to this channel, excepting special videos looking at the Sun and such, I give some comparison between the light polluted sky I see from the city I live in and the superior view a dark sky, with no light pollution can provide. Here in Ireland next week is Dark…
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The Upcoming Lunar Eclipse: How to See it and Where it Will Look Best
Today we are going to be looking at the penumbral lunar eclipse happening later this month. For us here in Ireland, we are only going to see the first half or so of this eclipse. We will see the Moon move into the edge of the Earths just before it sets, so we won’t get…
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The Analemma, How the Sun moves Throughout the Year
The analemma has been the subject of the past two Irish language videos so if you’ve been reading along here, then you already know that it is a figure eight shape traced out by the Sun over the course of the year. We’re going to take a further look at this motion, from Ireland and…
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