Tag: occultation
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Close Conjunction or Occultation: Venus and the Moon in 2050!
Today we are looking into the future to check out an event that was suggested by a commenter. We’re just jumping a couple of decades into the future, to 2050, and we are looking at the 21st of August, so we don’t need to worry too much about the date. I have been suggested a…
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Io and Europa: Jovian Occultations from August 19th to 30th
Today we are going to be looking at the moons of Jupiter from a couple of specific locations. Importantly, we are now past the solar eclipse. I hope many of you got to see the solar eclipse on August 12th. If you didn’t get to see the solar eclipse, I hope you at least saw…
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An Old Conjunction of Uranus and Mars: Back in 1988!
Today we are going back in time to take a look at a conjunction. We aren’t going too far back, some of you may know that we have gone back into prehistory to take a look at things before. We’re only going back to 1988 this time and we’re going to be looking for a…
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Venus Transiting Jupiter (1818) AND Mars Transiting Jupiter (1170)!
Today we’re not going to be taking a look at the solstice. I have taken a look at the solstice in a few different ways over the past couple of pieces, so we’re going to look at something a little bit different today. We are going to take a look at an event that was…
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A Sunrise Occultation: The Crescent Moon and the Pleiades
Today we are yet again looking forward into the coming month of June. Of course, we are very close to June now, so we’re not looking too far into the future, just forward to the 13th of June. Just like the piece before last, we are looking forward to see an event but that has…
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Jupiter’s Moons, Lightspeed and a 2092 Conjunction!
Today, we are going to look ahead to an event that is coming up in the future. This time we are only looking a few decades ahead, to 2092. For those of you who are regular readers of these posts, you know that we take a look into the future for future events occasionally, although…
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Where is it an Occultation? Regulus and the Moon!
Today we are going to take a closer look at a conjunction which is really an occultation, the occultation of Regulus by the Moon. In a piece a little earlier this month I went through several of the close conjunctions, planetary conjunctions and this lunar-stellar conjunction, that are visible during March. There was another piece…
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December Night Sky: Occultations, Elongation and More!
Today, we are taking a look just a few days into the future and further ahead into the coming month of December. To start with, the Sun is nice and low in the sky here in Ireland once we get just to the first of December. The time of sunrise for the 1st is just…
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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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Far Future Events: Venus in 2104 Occulting Neptune and More!
Today, we are yet again going to be looking into the future and a little bit further than we have recently. I will of course, get back to all of the wonderful things happening this month, the eclipses, the occultations, the conjunctions, there’s lots of great stuff going on this month. For today however, we’re…
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