Tag: occultation
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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 Occultation of Neptune by Mercury in 2067
Today, we are going to yet again take a look into the far future for some interesting events. We will be looking quite far into the future this time, decades and decades into the future, not just later this year or in a couple of years as we’ve looked at in the most recent couple…
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Venus and Regulus Align in 2044 and a Bright Mars in 2050
Today, we are going to continue looking into the future for some interesting future events. If you’d like to know what the sky is going to look like for July, just take a look back at a couple of previous posts on this website. I looked at the night sky in July, what different things…
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Thank You For 500 Subscribers! Venus, Jupiter & Sirius Together and The September Occultation!
First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who has subscribed to my YouTube channel. I am delighted to be up at 500 subscribers, a little bit more now, so hopefully that number will continue to grow. In some of the most recent installments, I have taken a look at things that…
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Transit of Venus, an Occultation, and Parallax
Today, we are going to take a look at parallax, or more so, we’re going to take a look at the transit of Venus. We’re also going to take another look at the occultation of Venus that’s coming up later this year. We’re going to jump forward to the same event that we took a…
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Parade of Planets 2028 and Mars/Mercury Occultation 2079
Today we are going to yet again take a look into the distant future, or not so distant future to begin with, to take a look at some upcoming events. These are yet more events that have been suggested by commenters, though one is a review of a previously observed event. Some of you may…
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Future Conjunctions: Looking Far Ahead
Today we are going to be looking forward. In the previous video we looked back to varying degrees and discussed things that were dealt with in the past, specifically figuring out the date of Easter and its relation to calendars. Today, however, we are going to be looking into the future to varying degrees, to…
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The Night Sky for January 2025
Today’s video, we are looking into January. We’ve already look a little into January, with New Year’s morning, but now we’re looking into the month proper to see what is going to come up. Now that we’re looking into 2025 by more than a couple of hours, the Moon is after moving past new, it’s…
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The Occultation of Saturn: Saturn and the Moon Align in August
Today we are going to look ahead just a little, to the 20th of August. As usual, we begin at sunset, so we will begin on the 20th. For those of us here in Ireland, we will be waiting until the morning of the 21st to catch the occultation of Saturn by the Moon. The…
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A Look Ahead to the Sky in August: the Perseids, the Planets and More!
As usual, as we draw to the end of one month, this piece is going to be an overview of what we can expect next month. We’re going to look ahead into August. Of course, not much is going to change between late July early August, but over the course of the month we will…
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