Tag: stargazing
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This August and the Next: A Conjunction and an Eclipse!
Today, we are going to look at the sky for August. We’re beginning with the morning sky in late August this year. There are plenty of planets and some interesting conjunctions on the 20th. We’ll cover just a couple of the things that are still coming up this month before we take a look a…
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Mercury’s August Morning Elongation and Brightness
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the planet Mercury. Some of this will cover general features of the smallest planet in the solar system, but we are going to be looking at Mercury in particular because of its greatest elongation coming up on the 19th of August. From midday on the…
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The Stars in August!
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for August yet again, but we’re going to concentrate on the constellations and a couple of the other features of the August sky. We’ll start just a little after sunset, at 11:30. The sky is almost as dark as it’s going to…
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Two July Conjunctions! (One in 2037)
Today, we are going to take a look at some upcoming events based on the suggestions of various commenters on my YouTube videos. In celebration of hitting 500 subscribers on YouTube, I am planning on making a Q&A video. As such, I am looking for any questions that anybody might have that I may be…
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The Night Sky in July: A Look Ahead
Today, we are going to have a very quick look through the month of July. Some of you may have already seen a quick look at the coming month of July here thanks to the article accompanying the Irish language video I recently posted to my YouTube channel. If you go back a few posts,…
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Deep Sky Objects: The Pegasus Cluster and Wandering Along the Milky Way
Today we are going to take a look at some deep sky objects. Deep sky objects are just objects outside of our solar system. In a way, the stars are deep sky objects, but we don’t really think of them as objects generally, they are just stars. Deep sky objects are things like other galaxies,…
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Mercury: Forewarning Before its Greatest Elongation!
Today we are going to take a quick look for the planet Mercury. In a recent video, I just about spotted Mercury just above the sunset towards the end of June. Now that we are into June, of course the sunset is going to be getting later, as late as it can get. That means…
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The Planets and Constellations in June
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for the month of June. We have already looked at the night sky in June to various degrees, mostly looking at how little of a night we actually get in June, but we’re going to ignore that for this show and concentrate…
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Seeing the Virgo Cluster Galaxies
Today we are going to be looking at some galaxies, we’re going to be looking at some galaxies that are well placed to be seen at this particular time of the year. For this piece, we are looking at sky from the middle of May to late May, roughly from the 15th to 20th this…
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May Sky Overview: Constellations and the Milky Way
Today we are going to be taking a look at the month of May generally. We will be looking generally at the month of May and taking a look at the phases of the Moon during different parts of the month as well. Just in case you didn’t catch it a couple of pieces ago,…
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