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Uranus and Neptune: Lonely Ice Giants
Today we are going to take a closer look at the planets Neptune and Uranus. We have taken a look at both planets before, each in their own separate post on this website, so if you want to take a look back at the pieces dedicated to Neptune and Uranus individually, they are still up…
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Titan versus the Icy Moons: Different Biospheres
Today, we are going to be taking a look at Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. We may take a look at a couple of other moons as well, but Saturn’s moons are more reasonably visible at this time of the year than Jupiters. Around the middle of the month, the Moon is pretty close to Saturn,…
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The Moon in July, a Harvest Moon?
Today, we are going to take a look at the Moon. We are coming up to the Full Moon for the month of July, so we’re going to take a look at how the Moon is going to behave from here to the end of the month. As some of you may remember, I am…
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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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Two July Conjunctions! (One in 2037)
Today, we are going to take a look at some upcoming events based on the suggestions of various commenters on my YouTube videos. In celebration of hitting 500 subscribers on YouTube, I am planning on making a Q&A video. As such, I am looking for any questions that anybody might have that I may be…
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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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An Spéir san Oíche i Mí Iúil | The Sky at Night in the Month of July
Today we will be looking ahead to the month of July. The first thing we will look at is something that we already know about. I’m going to talk about it again, but I have recently dealt with Mercury and its greatest elongation from the Sun. If you look back on the recent articles on…
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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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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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