Tag: stars
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A Conjunction in 2037 and This Year! (Possibly an Occultation)
Today we are going to yet again look into the future to look at some interesting upcoming events. We are going to start by looking just a little further ahead this year, we will just be looking forward to the 19th of September. We’re going to go forward to the appropriate date and we’re going…
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A Better Look at the June Constellations
Today we are going to take a closer look at the constellations that we’re going to see over the course of the month. I have already taken a look at the planets and the constellations in June, back in May we looked ahead to this month and the title of the piece was the Planets…
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Deep Sky Objects: The Pegasus Cluster and Wandering Along the Milky Way
Today we are going to take a look at some deep sky objects. Deep sky objects are just objects outside of our solar system. In a way, the stars are deep sky objects, but we don’t really think of them as objects generally, they are just stars. Deep sky objects are things like other galaxies,…
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Mercury: Forewarning Before its Greatest Elongation!
Today we are going to take a quick look for the planet Mercury. In a recent video, I just about spotted Mercury just above the sunset towards the end of June. Now that we are into June, of course the sunset is going to be getting later, as late as it can get. That means…
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Parade of Planets 2028 and Mars/Mercury Occultation 2079
Today we are going to yet again take a look into the distant future, or not so distant future to begin with, to take a look at some upcoming events. These are yet more events that have been suggested by commenters, though one is a review of a previously observed event. Some of you may…
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The Planets and Constellations in June
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the night sky for the month of June. We have already looked at the night sky in June to various degrees, mostly looking at how little of a night we actually get in June, but we’re going to ignore that for this show and concentrate…
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Twilight and the Moon in June
Today we are going to have a look ahead to the coming month. We are going to look ahead to June, which is the month of the summer solstice, but we’re not going to talk about the solstice itself too much just yet. Just before we go all the way forward to June, we’re going…
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Solas na Gréine ag Meánoíche | Sunlight at Midnight
Today we will be looking ahead to the solstice and looking at sunlight visible at midnight. The attached video is an Irish language video, though English subtitles are provided as a convenience. We are looking ahead to the sky for summer, and during the summer Ireland uses Summer Time. Due to daylight savings, the time…
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Venus’s Long Elongation and Mars at 2nd Brightest: Future Events
Today we are going to be looking into the future. Just last month, so at least a handful of articles ago, we took a look at various distances into the future to see some interesting events that were coming up, suggested to me by a commenter on YouTube. The big difference about these events is…
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