Tag: video
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Ó Eanáir go Feabhra, Cad atá ag Teacht Suas agus Cén Sórt Gealach?
This video is a bit like a bridge between January and February. It deals with some things coming up in Irish, that the English languages videos won’t get to for another few weeks. You get an advanced look at those details as well if you are reading this. Furthermore, at one point in the video…
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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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Exoplanets and Where to Find Them
Firstly, this video has a terrible visual artifact around the webcam. I believe I know what went wrong and should be able to prevent it in future videos, but I’d rather post something than skip a week, so here we are. I have updated the version of Stellarium that I am using. Up until recently,…
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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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The Night Sky in Ancient Times
We have used Stellarium to time travel in other videos already. In fact, almost every video looks a little bit into the future, so that we are prepared to take a look at whatever is coming up. In previous videos we travelled years into the future, to watch how the planets will move and to…
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A Quick look into the December Night Sky; the Winter Solstice and Another Meteor Shower!
Another month, another preview of upcoming astronomical phenomena! December is a great month for astronomy thanks to the long nights, including the longest night of the year! There is also a meteor shower this month, the Geminids in the middle of the month, nice and close to the New Moon, so the sky should be…
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Pairs of Stars, Doubles, Binaries and Bigger Groups
This video is again more on a topic, but it does refer to the state of the sky and positions of objects as they are at the time of the video, late November. Again however, we won’t be looking much at what’s in the sky generally here, we’ll be focused on pairs of stars. Some…
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Galaxies: How to Find Some and How they Change
This video is all about galaxies. We won’t go to far into the details of how they form or work, we’ll concentrate on actually seeing some in the sky. For that, we’ll need to take viewing conditions into account. Looking at the sky for late this November, it isn’t perfect. With a Full Moon, there’s…
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The Constellations of November/December and the Story of Perseus
We’re back to looking at the sky as it is right now. We are technically looking into next month, but that’s mostly just to keep the Moon out of the way. We’ll be starting in the city, light pollution on its own will already obscure enough stars, the Full Moon would make things even more…
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