Tag: planets
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Pharáid na Pláinéid le Gach Ceann le Fheiscint | The Parade of the Planets with All of them Visible
For today, we will be looking at the planets, and especially we will be looking at the Parade of the Planets or the March of the Planets. The attached video is in Irish, with English subtitles of course, and both parade and march seem to be words borrowed from English. Parade seems to b associated…
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The Southern Hemisphere’s Parade of Planets
We are finally coming up to the parade of planets. The full parade of planets with Mercury and Saturn above the horizon should be visible from as early as this weekend, if you are in the right location. We will be going through the potential view for a few southerly latitudes in today’s piece. To…
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Valentine’s Night from Both Hemispheres
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for Valentine’s night. With all of the looking ahead to the Parade of Planets at the very end of the month, I have skipped over this reasonably famous date in the middle of the month, which is of course, the 14th of…
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The View from Up High!
Today, we are going to pick up with something I mentioned at the end of the previous piece. I mentioned how your height off of the ground, your elevation, can change when you’ll see things and how you’ll see things. Stellarium does allow you to change your elevation, but not quite in the way that…
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A Better View from Lower Latitudes
Today’s video, we are going to be looking ahead to the end of February to the parade of planets. However, to shake it up a bit, we will be doing so from a few other latitudes. I generally show the sky as it would be seen from here in Ireland, because that is where I…
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Night Sky Constellations in February!
Today’s video, we are going to take a look at the constellations that we’re going to see during February. I will be basing this description on the sky from the city, with some amount of light pollution. We will see the planets and of course the brightest stars easily, and a lot of the constellations…
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Looking Ahead: Planets in 2040 and Mars in 2097
Today we are going to be looking into the future. Of course, on this website we almost always look into the future, it is a pretty rare event that I will look into the past. I almost always look ahead to the future because I want to prepare people for events that are coming up.…
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Looking into February and the Moon!
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the month of February, starting of course with the 1st of February this weekend. So, a Happy Imbolc or Imbolg, Lá Féile Bríd, or St Brigid’s Day, whatever you would like to call the first day of February, it is a festival of some sort in…
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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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