Tag: solar-system
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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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Makemake, the Rest, and a Bonus ISS!
Today are taking a look at one of the dwarf planets, along with some of the candidate dwarf planets, with a digression to discuss the ISS as well. The dwarf planet Makemake is pretty much of the last dwarf planet, in our current list of official dwarf planets at least. Really, Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea…
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From November to December: Jupiter at Opposition and More Meteor Showers!
As we continue to move later in the month, we are now just past the date where a lot of the cool stuff happened. We are just past the 17th, a little, which is around the time that Mercury had its greatest elongation and it’s the date where the Leonids would have peaked. AS such,…
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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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October’s Pair of Comets: 2023 A3 and 2024 S1
Today, we are finally going to deal with the comets that are visible at the moment. Depending on where you are and whether or not you use a telescope, these comets have technically been visible for a while. Now that they are coming up to their best and visible to the naked eye, we are…
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Asteroids and Comets, What makes them Different?
In today’s piece we are going to talk a little bit about asteroids and a little bit about comets. Firstly however, in the most recent piece I showed off some of the basic features of Stellarium, it was more of a walk through of the different kinds of things that Stellarium can do than an…
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Opposition: Saturn and Neptune at Their Closest to Us!
Today we are going to be looking at oppositions, specifically Saturn and Neptune coming to opposition, as they will both do so this month. I have taken a look at Neptune specifically quite recently and only a couple of months ago we took a close look at the planet Saturn as well, so although I…
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Neptune: The Most Distant Planet in the Solar System
After taking a c loser look at all the other planets, we are finally moving on to Neptune. Previously, we took a look at the dwarf planets as a group and some other minor bodies. Once we’ve dealt with Neptune, I will move on to taking a closer look at those distant objects, as well…
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Dwarf Planets and other Small Distant Objects
In today’s piece we are going to be taking a look at a different class of objects, the dwarf planets. Almost every month I briefly highlight a given planet, you can go back through the archives if you’d like to see some examples. Later this month we will be talking about Neptune, so I will…
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Venus in the Evening at Different Latitudes
I’ve mentioned the planets quite a lot recently, and with good reason. Over the course of the month of August, particularly in the morning, there are going to be a lot of planets in the sky. Even early in the month we have Jupiter, Mars and Saturn all together in the sky. If you caught…
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