Tag: stars
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Ó Feabhra go Márta, an Cónocht, Pláinéid agus Urú!
Although this Irish language video takes a look ahead into March, there are still a few interesting things yet to happen in February. To start on a low note, Saturn will be gone from the sky at night, by now as the Sun is setting, Saturn will be out of view. Jupiter is still there,…
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100 Subscriber Q&A: Part 2, Eccentricity, Constellations and the Shape of the Moon
We’re back for part two of the 100 subscriber Q&A special, so let’s dive right in. The first question is “What makes an orbit eccentric?”. This is a great question, mostly because eccentricity is such a complex thing. Many of the planets in our solar system a lot of the orbits are minimally eccentric compared…
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100 Subscriber Q&A: Part 1, Eclipses and the Solar System
This is the 100 Subscriber Q&A special, so I’ll be answering a couple of questions viewers have submitted. It turns out, I really did only answer couple of questions, just two in this video, hence the “Part 1”, the second part coming Thursday will finish up. I ended up giving almost two answers to every…
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Upcoming Conjunctions and Where to See Them
Today we are going to be looking at some conjunctions. A conjunction is when two planets, or a star and a planet, or the Moon and a planet, or the Moon and a star, anytime two interesting things get very close to each other in the sky. Some conjunctions are close conjunctions, when the two…
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Globular Clusters and 100 Subscriber Q&A Announcement
Globular clusters are the main focus of this video, a type of deep sky object that I have mentioned in previous videos, but they haven’t had their own focused video just yet. These ball of stars can be light years across, but I am excited for a much smaller number, 100. I have just surpassed…
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A Quick Look ahead to February, What’s Coming up and a Live Show!
Not only is February the shortest month, but this year it also doesn’t have any particularly prominent events. We don’t have any particularly great meteor showers, comets, or eclipses. However, the sky is still changing as always. Saturn is leaving our sky as mentioned in the recent video where we took a look at the…
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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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