Tag: science
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A Preview of January 2024 and some Teasers for the Upcoming Year
In this video we look a little further into the New Year, beyond New Year’s Day into January 2024 itself. Most things will remain pretty much the same, many parts of the sky change slowly even from month to month. Saturn is still visible in the evening, but very much only the early evening, along…
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A Preview of New Year’s and What’s in the Sky at Midnight
New Year’s is almost upon us and it’s good to know what to look out for if you’re out under the stars. As it is tradition among many to stay up till midnight on as we go from one year to the next, it’s a perfect night to have a look at the stars and…
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Spotting Satellites and the International Space Station
We are coming up to the 25th of December, Christmas for many people, and so that is the date used mostly in this video, but the topic of the video is satellites. Satellites can be surprisingly easy to spot once you know how, and although they are artificial, unlike most subjects of my videos, they…
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Exoplanets and Where to Find Them
Firstly, this video has a terrible visual artifact around the webcam. I believe I know what went wrong and should be able to prevent it in future videos, but I’d rather post something than skip a week, so here we are. I have updated the version of Stellarium that I am using. Up until recently,…
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Minor Objects, Meteors, Asteroids and a Dwarf Planet in the Asteroid Belt!
The Geminid meteor shower is upon us, or very nearly at least. I mentioned the Geminids in our overview of December, and there is a whole video dedicated to meteor showers as well. However, unlike many other meteor showers, which are caused by comets, this one is caused by an asteroid called Phaethon or 3200…
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