Tag: stars
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How Dark (or not) my Sky is Really
Today, we are going to talk about light pollution and dark skies, our view of the sky and my view of the sky in particular. We’re going to start with a little bit of a correction. I generally discuss the night sky as if it was around Bortle Class 5, that’s the level of light…
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Earthshine: How to See it This Month!
Today we are going to quickly review what some of the planets are doing in April, now that we’re getting a little bit closer to their conjunctions, and we’re also going to discuss a phenomenon known as Earthshine. We’ll begin with the Sun setting into the west for the 18th. We’re just past the New…
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Stephan’s Quintet, the Carina Nebula, JWST and Lagrangian Points!
Today we are going to take a look at a variety of deep sky objects, starting with a group of galaxies. Stellarium, as I mentioned in the previous piece, it did recently have an update and that update included new listings for things and hopefully it may contain some new images as well. We’re looking…
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April Constellations and Various Sky Cultures in Stellarium
Today we are going to be taking a look at the constellations that we’re going to see over the course of the month of April. Taking a look at the sky for mid-April and looking at the daytime sky, the Sun is almost directly in the south at just about 1:30, because we are at…
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The Night Sky for April 2026
Today we are going to take a look into the month of April to see what will be coming up in the sky. Taking a look firstly sunset on the 1st of April, Venus is nice and bright to the West, and also quite far from the Sun in the sky, so it will be…
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Where is it an Occultation? Regulus and the Moon!
Today we are going to take a closer look at a conjunction which is really an occultation, the occultation of Regulus by the Moon. In a piece a little earlier this month I went through several of the close conjunctions, planetary conjunctions and this lunar-stellar conjunction, that are visible during March. There was another piece…
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The March Equinox: Sunset, Sunrise and the Exact Moment of Equinox
Today we are going to be taking a quick look at the equinox. Of course the equinox is the date where the length of the day and the length of the night are equal and the equinox is occurring on the 20th of March. The equinox occurs on the 20th of March pretty much every…
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Oíche an Cónocht: Márta 2026!
For today’s piece, we are going to look ahead a couple of days to the equinox. The day of the equinox will be next week on the 20th of March, and on the date of the equinox, the night and the day are of equal length. That is the meaning of equinox, from the Latin…
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Sun-Saturn Superior Conjunction!
Today we are going to be looking at yet another conjunction. This conjunction is a little bit different from the conjunctions that we’ve taken a look at recently. Among those conjunctions was a conjunction of Saturn and Venus. That was at its best at around the seventh, so just past as of the date of…
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