Tag: venus
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Are They Spheres? Oblateness in Planets and Stars
Today we are going to be discussing the shape of various objects in the sky. Unfortunately, it can be tricky to actually see these shapes, especially with stars, but we will at least be discussing them. We’re taking a little bit of a break from the eclipses, although I will write another piece in the…
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Mars and Venus Superior Conjunction in January: Something We Can’t See
Today we are going to take a look at a couple of conjunctions that we’re not going to see in January. Some things are only visible from certain locations on Earth, for example, any solar eclipse will only be visible for a reasonably narrow portion of the Earth. This is true for many conjunctions as…
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Comet 3I/ATLAS: How Close will it Get? Plus other Comets!
Today, we are going to have a quick review of a couple of the major comets that have come through our sky in the past couple of months and will continue through our sky in a few months to come. We’re also going to take a look at one of those comets, 3I/ATLAS, from a…
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Meteor Showers, and More, in November
Today we will continue to look at the November sky. We are now into November and we’re going to start by taking a look at the sky on the 5th of November. Just as the Sun sets, the radiants of the first meteor showers of the month will already be up. Low in the east…
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Mercury’s August Morning Elongation and Brightness
Today, we are going to be taking a look at the planet Mercury. Some of this will cover general features of the smallest planet in the solar system, but we are going to be looking at Mercury in particular because of its greatest elongation coming up on the 19th of August. From midday on the…
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Venus and Regulus Align in 2044 and a Bright Mars in 2050
Today, we are going to continue looking into the future for some interesting future events. If you’d like to know what the sky is going to look like for July, just take a look back at a couple of previous posts on this website. I looked at the night sky in July, what different things…
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Thank You For 500 Subscribers! Venus, Jupiter & Sirius Together and The September Occultation!
First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone who has subscribed to my YouTube channel. I am delighted to be up at 500 subscribers, a little bit more now, so hopefully that number will continue to grow. In some of the most recent installments, I have taken a look at things that…
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Transit of Venus, an Occultation, and Parallax
Today, we are going to take a look at parallax, or more so, we’re going to take a look at the transit of Venus. We’re also going to take another look at the occultation of Venus that’s coming up later this year. We’re going to jump forward to the same event that we took a…
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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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Double Venus!
Today we are going to be looking at Venus. In a recent video, when we were taking an overview of March, I pointed out Venus visible at sunset in the early part of March, really close to Mercury, and once we came around to the end of March I showed Venus at sunrise after coming…
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