Tag: nature
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August Meteor Showers: The Perseids and More!
Today, we’re going to be taking a look at the Perseid meteor shower and the Eta Eridanid meteor shower, along with a couple of others. To begin with, before we move into darkness, before we move into the countryside, before we do anything else, I’m going to set the number of meteors in the Stellarium…
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An Spéir san Oíche i Mí Iúil | The Sky at Night in the Month of July
Today we will be looking ahead to the month of July. The first thing we will look at is something that we already know about. I’m going to talk about it again, but I have recently dealt with Mercury and its greatest elongation from the Sun. If you look back on the recent articles on…
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The Highest Possible Noon
In the last piece, I mentioned that we are coming up to the equinox. We are at least now closer to the coming equinox than we are to midwinter. If we were to move back into the recent past, back to midwinter, we’d see the Sun come down to its lowest noon high point. Moving…
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