Tag: planets
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Haumea: Another Dwarf Planet, Another (Minor) Controversy
In today’s piece we will be continuing our tour of distant objects by taking a look for Haumea, the most likely dwarf planet after Pluto and Eris. Pluto and Eris of course have their own articles and videos on this site already. Ceres is another dwarf planet, and being in the asteroid belt makes it…
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Deireadh Samhain agus ar aghaidh go Nollag / The End of November and on to December
The video accompanying this piece is in Irish, but I will provide this write up and the subtitles of the video in English as usual. Just like the previous English language piece, we are already half way through November and for that reason we will be looking at the end of November and the start…
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Some Spooky Objects for Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Today we are going to take a look at some of the spooky things in the sky. For this piece, we won’t worry too much about when or where these objects are visible. However, many are visible at this time of the year from Ireland, but many will only be visible with good…
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A Look Ahead to the November Night Sky
Today, we will be taking a quick look ahead to the upcoming month of November to see what we can see in the sky. As I have mentioned frequently in a few of the recent videos, such as when we were discussing comets and then nova that was supposed to occur in September, predicting the…
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An Spéir ar Oíche Shamhna! / The Sky on Halloween!
For this piece we will be looking at the sky for Halloween, and a little bit into November as well. The attached video is in Irish, but with English subtitles if you need them. As such, a couple of things do get lost in translation. The Irish for Halloween is “Oíche Shamhna” or Samhain Night.…
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Eris: The Dwarf Planet that Caused all the Strife and Discord
Today we will be continuing our look at various objects in the Solar System, which now means continuing with dwarf planets. I do of course want to continue reminding people about the currently visible comet, C/2023 A3, as well. It’s still there, just barely visible as we come to the end of October. This is…
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The Southern Sky as the Seasons Change
Today we are going to take a trip to the Southern Hemisphere. As I was making the video associated with this article, I saw that the last time I gave a look at the Southern Hemisphere’s sky was this time of the year last year. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we are now leaving summertime,…
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Some Types of Near Earth Objects.
Today we are going to take another look at asteroids, focusing on a couple of particular subgroups of them. In a recent piece we looked broadly at comets and asteroid, as minor planets or small solar system bodies, as two groups that almost blend into each other. Today, we’re going to be looking at a…
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Upcoming Constellations and How to Spot Them
In this piece we will continue looking ahead into the month of October, but focusing on the constellations. Last time, we looked ahead to see where the planets are going to be and some of the other things we will be able to see in the sky, such as meteor showers. In this piece, I’m…
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A Look Ahead to October: Another Supermoon!
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the night sky for the month of October. As always, my default perspective is from here in Ireland, and because I will be talking about the sky at night from here in Ireland, I won’t be dealing with the annular solar eclipse that is going to…
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