Tag: space
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A Quick look at the November Night Sky; Uranus and the Leonid Meteor Shower
We’re back with another monthly overview! Before we get into this month proper, we did just have a partial Lunar Eclipse which you can read a bit about in previous posts, we also just passed the Opposition of Jupiter. We have discussed oppositions and especially Jupiter in previous videos and posts as well. Jupiter is…
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The Ecliptic and some of the Most Famous Constellations
The ecliptic is a very special imaginary line in the sky, and it has been mentioned in previous videos, particularly as the location of eclipses. It’s where we see the planets and also the line the Sun lies on in the sky. The significance of this line was noticed even in ancient times, and as…
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Deep Sky Objects: Nebulae, Clusters and Galaxies
In this video, we take a look at Deep Sky Objects, those things lying outside our solar system, or even outside our galaxy, which we can see. Having dark skies with no light pollution helps and most of these objects require telescopes to see at all. From clouds of gas to groups of stars, we’ll…
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October Refresher and the latest Videos/Athnuachan Deireadh Fomhair agus Na Físeáin is Déanaí
Time for another Irish language astronomy video! This video serves to up date the previous Irish video on the positions of the planets as well as covering in Irish the topics that were covered in English by the most recent English language videos. Of course, we start with the planets. Saturn remains visible from sunset,…
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A Brief look at the Night Sky for September 2023
In this video we take a look at the night sky and how it will appear over early September. With planets such as Saturn, Jupiter and Venus all visible, it’s a great time to look at the sky. We start at sunset, observing the first stars to appear. These stars will always be the brighter…
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