Tag: planets
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Meteor Showers, and More, in November
Today we will continue to look at the November sky. We are now into November and we’re going to start by taking a look at the sky on the 5th of November. Just as the Sun sets, the radiants of the first meteor showers of the month will already be up. Low in the east…
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From Dust and Gas to Rogue Planets and Brown Dwarfs
Happy Halloween everybody! This piece should be coming out before the 31st but this is the closest to Halloween that I will be posting. We’re going to go on a bit of a journey through a few things today. We’re starting by taking a look at the night sky for Halloween, moving all the way…
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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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Asteroid 2025 PN7: A Temporary Moon
In several recent pieces we have taken a look at a few different comets and a lot of them were discovered just this year. For example, Comet 3I/ATLAS, which is an interstellar comet, it’s full name is 2025 3I/ATLAS, it was only discovered this year. In order to take a look at this comet in…
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Late October Sky: Comets and More | An Spéir Déanach i mí Dheireadh Fómhair: Cóiméid agus Níos Mó
Today, we will be looking at the sky for the second half of the month of October and we’re going to start in the morning, rather than at sunset as we usually do. Looking at the sky in the southeast before sunrise on the 17th, the planets Jupiter and Venus are prominently visible. It is…
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October Meteor Showers: The Orionids and Draconids!
Today, we are yet again looking to the October sky, and we’re going to look at a couple of the minor events that we skipped over in the previous piece. I mentioned last time that the Moon is having a reasonable conjunction with Saturn early in the month, and we’re coming forward to the Full…
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Jupiter and Saturn in the 7500’s!
Today, we are going to look ahead into the future. If you are a regular reader of the posts on this website, then you know that I regularly get suggested different things to take a look at in the sky, often future events. We are going quite far into the future this time and we’re…
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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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The Sky from Lower Latitudes: Mars and the Milky Way
Today, we are going to take a look at the late September sky, but for a change we are going to look at the sky from a lower latitude. I usually speak from the perspective of Ireland, and here in Ireland we’re pretty far north in the northern hemisphere. As we’re pretty high up on…
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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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