Tag: stars
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The November Constellations
Today, we are still looking at the night sky in November, but we will concentrate on the constellations. In a recent video we looked ahead to the month of November to point out various objects such as Venus, along with some of the upcoming meteor showers. Later this month we will have Mercury’s greatest elongation,…
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Some Spooky Objects for Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Today we are going to take a look at some of the spooky things in the sky. For this piece, we won’t worry too much about when or where these objects are visible. However, many are visible at this time of the year from Ireland, but many will only be visible with good…
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A Look Ahead to the November Night Sky
Today, we will be taking a quick look ahead to the upcoming month of November to see what we can see in the sky. As I have mentioned frequently in a few of the recent videos, such as when we were discussing comets and then nova that was supposed to occur in September, predicting the…
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An Spéir ar Oíche Shamhna! / The Sky on Halloween!
For this piece we will be looking at the sky for Halloween, and a little bit into November as well. The attached video is in Irish, but with English subtitles if you need them. As such, a couple of things do get lost in translation. The Irish for Halloween is “Oíche Shamhna” or Samhain Night.…
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No Nova? Corona Borealis and the Blaze Star
I am going to start with potentially a little bit of bad news. It’s not very bad news, but at the same time it’s not great, I am certainly a little disappointed. It no longer looks like we will see a new star in the sky this year. For a while, it seemed likely that…
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The Southern Sky as the Seasons Change
Today we are going to take a trip to the Southern Hemisphere. As I was making the video associated with this article, I saw that the last time I gave a look at the Southern Hemisphere’s sky was this time of the year last year. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we are now leaving summertime,…
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Upcoming Constellations and How to Spot Them
In this piece we will continue looking ahead into the month of October, but focusing on the constellations. Last time, we looked ahead to see where the planets are going to be and some of the other things we will be able to see in the sky, such as meteor showers. In this piece, I’m…
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A Look Ahead to October: Another Supermoon!
Today we are going to be looking ahead to the night sky for the month of October. As always, my default perspective is from here in Ireland, and because I will be talking about the sky at night from here in Ireland, I won’t be dealing with the annular solar eclipse that is going to…
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An Spéir ar Oíche Chultúir 2024 / The Sky on Culture Night 2024
In todays piece we will be looking at the sky for Culture Night. Culture Night is the 20th of September, the day after the day this piece will have gone up on this website. Just in case you are getting to this article a few days later, most of the details presented here will remain…
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Betelgeuse/Beetlejuice
Today’s piece is mostly about the star Betelgeuse, however I will start the article the same way I started the video, by mentioning Culture Night. The 20th of September is Culture Night in Ireland, so it is coming up soon. If you are in Ireland, Culture Night puts on a lot of amazing events and…
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