Tag: stars
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A Preview of January 2024 and some Teasers for the Upcoming Year
In this video we look a little further into the New Year, beyond New Year’s Day into January 2024 itself. Most things will remain pretty much the same, many parts of the sky change slowly even from month to month. Saturn is still visible in the evening, but very much only the early evening, along…
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Spotting Satellites and the International Space Station
We are coming up to the 25th of December, Christmas for many people, and so that is the date used mostly in this video, but the topic of the video is satellites. Satellites can be surprisingly easy to spot once you know how, and although they are artificial, unlike most subjects of my videos, they…
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A Stellarium Feature, Telescopes, Binoculars and Oculars
All of the videos I make use Stellarium, we’ve seen how it can transport you through time and to other planets, and we’re going to play around with one of its features in this video, the ability to simulate the view from a telescope. Telescopes are simple in principle but of course the details can…
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Orion: The Constellation of the Hunter and its Deep Sky Objects
In this video we are back to taking a look at something we can see in the sky when the video is published, Orion. Probably one of the most famous constellations in the sky thanks to Orion’s Belt, the three bright stars in the middle, Orion is really coming to the fore in December and…
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