Tag: stars
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October Meteor Showers: The Orionids and Draconids!
Today, we are yet again looking to the October sky, and we’re going to look at a couple of the minor events that we skipped over in the previous piece. I mentioned last time that the Moon is having a reasonable conjunction with Saturn early in the month, and we’re coming forward to the Full…
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The Sky from Lower Latitudes: Mars and the Milky Way
Today, we are going to take a look at the late September sky, but for a change we are going to look at the sky from a lower latitude. I usually speak from the perspective of Ireland, and here in Ireland we’re pretty far north in the northern hemisphere. As we’re pretty high up on…
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That’s not the Boötes Void, that’s a Bok Globule . . .
Today, we are going to take a look at a couple of different things. We’re going to start by taking a look at the constellation Bootes or Boötes, (or Böötes or Böotes). It is a tricky one to pronounce, but it isn’t a tricky one to find, especially at this time of the year. From…
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September: Stars and Saturn
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky in September again. We will be looking at the sky for the month coming up, but we will be concentrating on the stars. There are so many exciting things coming up in September that in my previews of this September so far…
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A Look Ahead to September: An Eclipse, An Occultation and Oppositions!
Today we are going to take a quick look ahead to the month of September. We’ll start with the sunset in early September. Early in September the sky won’t be too different from what we’re seeing in August, but it will be starting to get darker a little bit earlier once we’re a little into…
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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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A Comparison of Meteor Showers: July versus August
Today, we are going to take a quick look at a few different meteor showers, beginning with the meteor showers that are peaking at the moment in late July. Then we’ll take a look ahead to the meteor shower that will be peaking once we come into August. We’re starting with sunset on the 28th…
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The Night Sky in August: Conjunctions and More!
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the coming month of August. We will start on the first day of August, Lá Fhéile Lughnasadh, as it’s known in Ireland. Lughnasadh is the month of August and the first day is the Festival of August. We’re finally getting out of summertime, so the…
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The Occultation of Neptune by Mercury in 2067
Today, we are going to yet again take a look into the far future for some interesting events. We will be looking quite far into the future this time, decades and decades into the future, not just later this year or in a couple of years as we’ve looked at in the most recent couple…
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Breith Réalta | The Birth of a Star
For today, we will be looking at stars. I know that we look the stars in every piece, one way or the other. Even if we are talking more about the planets or something like that, the stars are always behind them, the stars are in the sky. We’re still looking at them while we…
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