Tag: solstice
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Solas na Gréine ag Meánoíche | Sunlight at Midnight
Today we will be looking ahead to the solstice and looking at sunlight visible at midnight. The attached video is an Irish language video, though English subtitles are provided as a convenience. We are looking ahead to the sky for summer, and during the summer Ireland uses Summer Time. Due to daylight savings, the time…
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The Highest Possible Noon
In the last piece, I mentioned that we are coming up to the equinox. We are at least now closer to the coming equinox than we are to midwinter. If we were to move back into the recent past, back to midwinter, we’d see the Sun come down to its lowest noon high point. Moving…
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The December Solstice: Winter or Summer?
Today we will continue looking at the upcoming December solstice, as it is now just a couple of days away. However, we are also going to look at the solstice from the equator and from the southern hemisphere. Here in the northern hemisphere we are looking at the winter solstice. From Ireland, the Sun is…
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Midwinter 2024: A Great Night for Planets!
Today we are going to take a look ahead to midwinter’s day, as it is coming up very soon now. We are on looking at the 21st of December for 2024, in other years the date of the winter solstice can vary to the 22nd or even 23rd of December. I will be talking from…
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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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June and the Summer Solstice
In the previous video we took a look forward to the very early part of June, particularly the planets that we will get to see in the morning. Despite Mercury and Jupiter being too close to the Sun for us to see in Ireland, from other locations four planets would be visible in the sky…
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The Spring Equinox at the North Pole, plus the Solstices and More!
In this video, we take a look at the sky from the North Pole, at one of the most interesting times of the year to do so, the equinox. Specifically, this is the spring or vernal equinox, the March equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. After months of darkness, the Sun is finally starting to rise.…
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