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Early Morning Planets: Better from Elsewhere
Happy April Fool’s Day everyone, don’t worry I won’t be pulling any pranks. Today we are going to take a look at Mercury, Saturn and Venus in the morning. In a recent piece I mentioned that Mercury is coming to its greatest elongation and how that wouldn’t really be visible for us here in Ireland.…
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The March Solar Eclipse
Today we are going to take a closer look at the partial solar eclipse that we will be able to see from here in Ireland on Saturday the 29th of March. We will begin looking at the whole sky for midday on Saturday the 29th of March. The eclipse will have just finished at this…
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The Night Sky in April: A Quick Look Ahead
Today we are going to take a quick look ahead into the coming month of April. April is coming up, and there aren’t too many particularly crazy events happening in April. It will be after the solar eclipse that’s coming up at the end of this month, which I will cover before the end of…
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The Spring Equinox and a View from Mercury
Today we are going to talk about the equinox. The date of posting, the 20th, is the equinox, so we are coming through the equinox right now. This is the vernal equinox or the spring equinox for the northern hemisphere and the autumnal equinox or the autumn equinox for the Southern Hemisphere. It could be…
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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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Na Dhá Urú i mí na Márta! | Both of the Eclipses in March!
Today, we will be looking at the eclipses, a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse, as we have one of each coming up in March. The first eclipse, the lunar one, is occurring on the 14th, but very early in the morning, so we will start on the 13th with sunset instead. The Moon is…
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The Start of March, the Newest Moon and Eclipses!
Today we are going to be looking at the very end of February along with a quick look ahead to March. Normally, I take a look at the coming month without finishing up the previous month, I don’t normally pay too much attention to the final day of the month. However, with the parade of…
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Pharáid na Pláinéid le Gach Ceann le Fheiscint | The Parade of the Planets with All of them Visible
For today, we will be looking at the planets, and especially we will be looking at the Parade of the Planets or the March of the Planets. The attached video is in Irish, with English subtitles of course, and both parade and march seem to be words borrowed from English. Parade seems to b associated…
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The Highest Possible Noon
In the last piece, I mentioned that we are coming up to the equinox. We are at least now closer to the coming equinox than we are to midwinter. If we were to move back into the recent past, back to midwinter, we’d see the Sun come down to its lowest noon high point. Moving…
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The Southern Hemisphere’s Parade of Planets
We are finally coming up to the parade of planets. The full parade of planets with Mercury and Saturn above the horizon should be visible from as early as this weekend, if you are in the right location. We will be going through the potential view for a few southerly latitudes in today’s piece. To…
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