Tag: planets
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The Night Sky for April 2026
Today we are going to take a look into the month of April to see what will be coming up in the sky. Taking a look firstly sunset on the 1st of April, Venus is nice and bright to the West, and also quite far from the Sun in the sky, so it will be…
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The March Equinox: Sunset, Sunrise and the Exact Moment of Equinox
Today we are going to be taking a quick look at the equinox. Of course the equinox is the date where the length of the day and the length of the night are equal and the equinox is occurring on the 20th of March. The equinox occurs on the 20th of March pretty much every…
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Sun-Saturn Superior Conjunction!
Today we are going to be looking at yet another conjunction. This conjunction is a little bit different from the conjunctions that we’ve taken a look at recently. Among those conjunctions was a conjunction of Saturn and Venus. That was at its best at around the seventh, so just past as of the date of…
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An Spéír ar Oíche Lá Fhéile Pádraig agus Níos Mó! | The Sky on Saint Patrick’s Night and More!
Happy Seachtain na Gaeilge to you all, it is Ireland’s National Irish-language Week, which really lasts a fortnight. We are beginning by looking at the sky for the night of Saint Patrick’s Day. The attached video is in Irish and as it is Seachtain na Gaeilge, there will be more than one Irish language video…
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Multiple March Conjunctions, and Maybe an Occultation!
Today we are going to be looking at some conjunctions, some close conjunctions and even closer, that are happening over the course of the month of March. Just before we take a look ahead to those, we’re going to get rid of the atmosphere and the ground so we can take a look at the…
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The March Night Sky
Today we are going to take a quick look at the month of March. We will begin by looking forward to the 3rd of March, the night of the Full Moon, at sunset. As the Sun is setting in the west, Venus appears nice and early just a little above the sunset. It is one…
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The Greatest Eastern Elongation of Mercury: Visible to the West!
Today we are looking at something that is happening on the date that this article is published, for the second time this week. Normally, I tend to look further into the future on this channel, but there happen to be events coinciding with the dates of posting at the moment. The last piece was about…
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The February Parade of Planets: 6 out of 7 is Pretty Good!
Today, we are going to be taking a look towards the end of the month of February to catch the parade of planets. Just a year ago, we had a parade of planets, which was better than the parade of planets we’re getting at the end of February. What is a parade of planets? It’s…
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A Look Ahead to the Month of February / The February Night Sky
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the night sky for the coming month of February. There are a couple of interesting things happening in February, the greatest elongation of Mercury on the 19th and an annular solar eclipse on the 12th in particular. However, because the annular solar eclipse is mostly going…
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Mars and Venus Superior Conjunction in January: Something We Can’t See
Today we are going to take a look at a couple of conjunctions that we’re not going to see in January. Some things are only visible from certain locations on Earth, for example, any solar eclipse will only be visible for a reasonably narrow portion of the Earth. This is true for many conjunctions as…
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