Tag: solar-system
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Solar Day, Sidereal Day, and the Parade of Planets
I mentioned in the last article that there are different ways to measure a day, among them are the sidereal and solar days. This little tidbit was not mentioned in the previous video attached to that article, just one of the many little bonus facts readers of the website get. In the above video, I…
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Looking Forward: Comet Halley in 2061 and Mercury’s Transit in 2032
As promised last time, we are going to be looking far ahead into the future to take a look at Halley’s Comet. Halley’s Comet has a period of about 75 years, though this varies due to the planets effect as it passes them. Right now, we have to wait 37 years for it to return…
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Damhsa na Pláinéid: Conas a Bhogann Siad
In this video, we take a look at the planets, particularly their motion through the sky. We’ve looked at the motion of various planets before, but mostly individually. Here, we’re looking at the planets all together, so we can compare their movements to each other and the background of the stars. We’ll start by looking…
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Jupiter: A Closer Look at the Giant Planet
In this video, we finally take a closer look at Jupiter. Jupiter has been incredibly prominent in our sky for months now, especially standing out as the brightest object in the sky at sunset the past couple of months, appearing as the very first object when the sky begins to darken. Jupiter is much further…
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The Analemma, How the Sun moves Throughout the Year
The analemma has been the subject of the past two Irish language videos so if you’ve been reading along here, then you already know that it is a figure eight shape traced out by the Sun over the course of the year. We’re going to take a further look at this motion, from Ireland and…
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Mars: How and When to See it and How it Moves in the Sky.
As you may have seen in some of the recent posts here, Mars is beginning to be visible in the morning sky, but we’re going to have to move to the end of March and beyond before it reaches a good position for observation, at least those of us in higher latitudes. Starting right on…
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100 Subscriber Q&A: Part 2, Eccentricity, Constellations and the Shape of the Moon
We’re back for part two of the 100 subscriber Q&A special, so let’s dive right in. The first question is “What makes an orbit eccentric?”. This is a great question, mostly because eccentricity is such a complex thing. Many of the planets in our solar system a lot of the orbits are minimally eccentric compared…
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100 Subscriber Q&A: Part 1, Eclipses and the Solar System
This is the 100 Subscriber Q&A special, so I’ll be answering a couple of questions viewers have submitted. It turns out, I really did only answer couple of questions, just two in this video, hence the “Part 1”, the second part coming Thursday will finish up. I ended up giving almost two answers to every…
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Venus, the View from a Strange Planet
Today we are looking at Venus. We won’t just look at Venus, just like some previous videos about the gas giants, we’re going to take a look a the view from Venus as well. The video above does begin with a quick look at how the sky appears at the moment, showing Saturn disappearing soon…
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The View from Jupiter and Close Look at the Gas Giants, From Above!
In this video, although we begin where we left off last time, floating high in the atmosphere of Saturn, we’re going to quickly transfer ourselves to Jupiter. Jupiter is that bit closer to the Sun than Saturn, which should give us a slightly better view of the inner planets. The inner planets are Earth, Mercury,…
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