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December Night Sky: Occultations, Elongation and More!
Today, we are taking a look just a few days into the future and further ahead into the coming month of December. To start with, the Sun is nice and low in the sky here in Ireland once we get just to the first of December. The time of sunrise for the 1st is just…
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A Preview of the November Night Sky
Today, we are going to take a look ahead to the coming month of November to see what the sky is going to look like and what kind of objects we’re going to be able to see. We’ll briefly start with sunset on the 1st of November. This is of course a reasonably similar sky…
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A Look Ahead to October: A Supermoon, Occultation and Conjunctions
Today, we are going to take a look into the month of October. We’ve already seen so much of the late September sky, we’re going to go a little bit into October, rather than starting on the 1st. We’re going to jump a couple of days into the month in order to see some of…
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The October Supermoon: the Most Super of the Year?
In answer to the title: In terms of distance, yes it is! Today we are going to be looking at the Full Moon and yet another supermoon. I have mentioned in previous pieces that for a couple of months now, at least since August, it’s felt like every Full Moon has been a supermoon. Technically,…
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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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The September Lunar Eclipse and October Solar Eclipse!
After alluding to these events last time, we are today going to take a look at the upcoming partial lunar and annular solar eclipse. The Partial lunar eclipse will occur in September, but we will look all the way forward into early October to catch the solar eclipse as well. All lunar eclipses happen during…
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The Truth about the Full Blue Super Moon
Today, for a change, we are going to be talking about something that is happening today, on the date of this publication, really something from yesterday, the 19th of August. However, there is no need to worry if you’re getting to this piece a day or two late. In fact this piece is specifically about…
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Supermoons, Micromoons and some Meteors
As mentioned in the last video, there isn’t a lot happening in the sky this month. We do of course have the Micromoon, which I will get back to, but other than that, no eclipses or oppositions or meteor showers. However, despite not having any particular showers, we will still have some meteors. We usually…
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