Tag: opposition
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A Preview of the November Night Sky
Today, we are going to take a look ahead to the coming month of November to see what the sky is going to look like and what kind of objects we’re going to be able to see. We’ll briefly start with sunset on the 1st of November. This is of course a reasonably similar sky…
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Another Titan Transit and Saturn in Different Years
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the planet Saturn. At the moment you can catch it just a little after sunset towards the east. Here in Ireland we can see it by about 9 o’clock in the middle of September. We’re going all the way forward to the 20th of September,…
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The Parade of Planets is Yet to Come and Earth in Retrograde!
Having taken a look at Mars at opposition and how Mars enters into a strange, temporary, apparent retrograde motion during that time, we are going to take a look at the Earth doing the same. Of course, to see the Earth at opposition, we need to head to Venus or Mercury. However, before that I…
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Mars in Retrograde and the Martian Seasons
Lately, we have been looking a lot at the planets. A few videos ago when I spoke about the parade of planets, we followed some of the planets through the constellations that they’re going to be in over the next couple of months. For planets that are closer to the Sun, like Venus and Mercury,…
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The Light of the Moon, Venus and their Shadows
Today I am going to hop through a couple of topics thanks to an idea inspired by a comment on the previous video on my YouTube channel. It is a bit of a journey, but we are going to begin by taking a look at the night sky for just a couple of nights ago,…
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From November to December: Jupiter at Opposition and More Meteor Showers!
As we continue to move later in the month, we are now just past the date where a lot of the cool stuff happened. We are just past the 17th, a little, which is around the time that Mercury had its greatest elongation and it’s the date where the Leonids would have peaked. AS such,…
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Opposition: Saturn and Neptune at Their Closest to Us!
Today we are going to be looking at oppositions, specifically Saturn and Neptune coming to opposition, as they will both do so this month. I have taken a look at Neptune specifically quite recently and only a couple of months ago we took a close look at the planet Saturn as well, so although I…
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