Tag: planets
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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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This August and the Next: A Conjunction and an Eclipse!
Today, we are going to look at the sky for August. We’re beginning with the morning sky in late August this year. There are plenty of planets and some interesting conjunctions on the 20th. We’ll cover just a couple of the things that are still coming up this month before we take a look a…
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The Next Transits of Mercury: 2032 and 2039!
Today, we are yet again going to be looking into the future, into the reasonably distant future this time, but not quite as far as some previous videos. We will be looking forward into the 2030s, and we will also be looking a few months into the future, forward to November, in this case November…
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Mercury’s August Morning Elongation and Brightness
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the planet Mercury. Some of this will cover general features of the smallest planet in the solar system, but we are going to be looking at Mercury in particular because of its greatest elongation coming up on the 19th of August. From midday on the…
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Saturn and Jupiter Conjunction in 2080!
Today, we are going to once again be taking a look into the far future. I have done this on previous occasions where we take a look, often quite far, into the future, and we will be going quite far into the future this time as well. The last event that we took a look…
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The Night Sky in August: Conjunctions and More!
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the coming month of August. We will start on the first day of August, Lá Fhéile Lughnasadh, as it’s known in Ireland. Lughnasadh is the month of August and the first day is the Festival of August. We’re finally getting out of summertime, so the…
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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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Uranus and Neptune: Lonely Ice Giants
Today we are going to take a closer look at the planets Neptune and Uranus. We have taken a look at both planets before, each in their own separate post on this website, so if you want to take a look back at the pieces dedicated to Neptune and Uranus individually, they are still up…
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Titan versus the Icy Moons: Different Biospheres
Today, we are going to be taking a look at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. We may take a look at a couple of other moons as well, but Saturn’s moons are more reasonably visible at this time of the year than Jupiters. Around the middle of the month, the Moon is pretty close to Saturn,…
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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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