Tag: stargazing
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A Preview of January 2026!
Today we are taking a look ahead at the month of January. Starting nice and early in the month, we begin on just the 3rd of January. Just after sunset, the Moon will be right next to Jupiter. At just 5:30 the Moon and Jupiter are already up, right next to each other, right in…
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From Christmas Eve to New Year’s Morning: the Sky at the End of the Year
As promised, today we are going to take a look at a couple of specific nights. Just at the end of December, there are a couple of dates where people may be staying up late or getting up early. We’re going to take a look at the 24th, 25th and 31st into the 1st, Christmas…
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The Ursid Meteor Shower and Late December Sky
Today we are going to take a look at the night sky for later December, particularly the Ursid meteor shower coming up on the 21st/22nd of December. I will also go over the major constellations that are visible. We will start with sunset on the 16th. The sky hasn’t changed too drastically since early December,…
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December’s Morning Mercury: The Smallest Planet’s Greatest Elongations
Today, we are going to be looking at the planet Mercury. We’re going to start just a couple of days ago, when Mercury was at its greatest elongation. We’re coming back to sunrise on the 7th of December, when Mercury reached its greatest elongation. Thankfully, it will be close to this greatest elongation for a…
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Winter Stargazing: Stars and Constellations
Today we are going to take a look at the winter night sky very generally. We’ll start just around sunset in early December, but we’ll go through the night and across a few months around midwinter. As we’re going to be taking a general look at the night sky, we’re going to ignore the planets…
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December Night Sky: Occultations, Elongation and More!
Today, we are taking a look just a few days into the future and further ahead into the coming month of December. To start with, the Sun is nice and low in the sky here in Ireland once we get just to the first of December. The time of sunrise for the 1st is just…
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Comets and Meteor Showers: The Leonids and 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
Today we are going to begin by looking back to the Leonid meteor shower which happened, which peaked just a couple of days ago. To see the radiant of this meteor shower nice and high, we need the constellation Leo to be up, which it is now at about 3 o’clock in the morning. With…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS: How Close will it Get? Plus other Comets!
Today, we are going to have a quick review of a couple of the major comets that have come through our sky in the past couple of months and will continue through our sky in a few months to come. We’re also going to take a look at one of those comets, 3I/ATLAS, from a…
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