SkyCaramba
Podcast about astronomy and the joys of watching the skies at night--and sometimes during the dayPodcasts
Why applause is appropriate for this week's morning show
Published: Jan. 21, 2024, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 39 seconds
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Mercury and a very distant star
Published: Jan. 14, 2024, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds
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The moon gets in on the morning action
Published: Jan. 7, 2024, 6 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 33 seconds
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Events to watch for in 2024
Published: Dec. 31, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds
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Remembering the Pioneer plaque designer
Published: Dec. 17, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds
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Halley's Comet Heads Back
Published: Dec. 10, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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Halves and quarters; two bright stars are about to vanish
Published: Dec. 3, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes
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Pioneer 10's prominent anniversary
Published: Nov. 26, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 13 seconds
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How the first successful Mars mission ultimately failed
Published: Nov. 19, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds
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Why certain stars are so often left out
Published: Nov. 12, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds
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Look for the Leonids
Published: Nov. 5, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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Jupiter almost as good as it gets
Published: Oct. 29, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds
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How Neptune finally got noticed
Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 26 seconds
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Annular solar eclipse almost here
Published: Oct. 8, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds
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Draconid meteors and eclipse preparation
Published: Oct. 1, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 26 seconds
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Sirius by day and a daytime meteor shower
Published: Sept. 24, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
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Moonrise rough guide
Published: Sept. 17, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds
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The lizard up there
Published: Sept. 10, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 24 seconds
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A proposed mission to the seventh planet; an upcoming solar eclipse
Published: Sept. 3, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds
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A galactic merger and dust rings around a southern star
Published: Aug. 13, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 57 seconds
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Different north and south stars
Published: Aug. 6, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds
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Summer meteor showers
Published: July 23, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds
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Proving Pluto's moons
Published: July 16, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 27 seconds
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Regulus, the summer triangle, and star-crossed lovers
Published: July 9, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds
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Super moons and super high tides
Published: July 2, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds
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Solstice and circumference
Published: June 18, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds
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A bird, a bowl, and a misnamed water snake
Published: June 11, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 13 seconds
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A daytime meteor shower
Published: June 4, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds
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Dichotomy defies definition
Published: May 28, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds
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What a woman gets for all her toils under the stars
Published: May 21, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds
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Hey, the sun emits radio waves!
Published: May 14, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds
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The happenstance birth of radio astronomy
Published: May 7, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds
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Eta Aquariids, Mercury disappears, and penumbral eclipse reminder
Published: April 30, 2023, 5:01 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 24 seconds
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Virgo; Astronomy Day
Published: April 23, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds
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An eclipse, a meteor shower, and more
Published: April 16, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 3 seconds
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Hybrid solar eclipse
Published: April 9, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds
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Dark skies matter
Published: April 2, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds
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Neptune in a new light; the raspberry taste at the center of the galaxy
Published: March 26, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds
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Aries at the equinox; the first asteroid at opposition
Published: March 19, 2023, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
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First photographs of the moon and stars
Published: March 12, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds
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Venus and Jupiter paired, Saturn and Mercury trade mornings
Published: Feb. 26, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 40 seconds
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Venus keeps climbing, Cetus the sea monster, and the incredible inedible egg
Published: Feb. 19, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 43 seconds
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Venus passes Neptune very close! And the unicorn
Published: Feb. 12, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds
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Catch sight of the comet
Published: Jan. 29, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds
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The little dog and the first Pluto pictures
Published: Jan. 22, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
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Venus meets Saturn, the moon has a close perigee, and more
Published: Jan. 15, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 46 seconds
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Mercury moves to the morning
Published: Jan. 8, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
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Two planets at perihelion, Venus climbs toward Saturn, and moon over Mars again
Published: Jan. 1, 2023, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 35 seconds
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The asteroid belt's not densely packed and why planets don't twinkle--usually
Published: Dec. 25, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds
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Mercury at greatest elongation and the longest days of the year
Published: Dec. 18, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 50 seconds
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The so-called lunar standstill and the Geminid meteor shower
Published: Dec. 11, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds
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The moon hides Mars
Published: Dec. 4, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds
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Alrighty Auriga! And a DART on target.
Published: Nov. 27, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds
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Calculating planets' positions
Published: Nov. 20, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds
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Start looking for Leonids and try to spot the crane
Published: Nov. 13, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds
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Lunar eclipse, Leonids, and the sun, stars, and stripes.
Published: Nov. 6, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 33 seconds
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Total lunar eclipse and how a nova shone new light on the nature of stars
Published: Oct. 30, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds
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Mercury Hidden and the Goat-Fish
Published: Oct. 23, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds
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This month's solar eclipse and next month's Uranus opposition
Published: Oct. 16, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
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Orionids, Hyades, and the stellar royal family
Published: Oct. 9, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 13 seconds
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Sirius by day and DART
Published: Oct. 2, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 44 seconds
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A crab, donkeys, and bees
Published: Sept. 18, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 25 seconds
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Published: Sept. 11, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds
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A once-in-a-lifetime opposition
Published: Sept. 4, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds
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Awful astrology questions
Published: Aug. 28, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds
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The swan and the eagle
Published: Aug. 14, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds
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A martyr's tears streak the sky
Published: Aug. 7, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds
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Mercury emerges into the evening; the lover's crown over your head
Published: July 24, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds
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Galactic coordinates and the Delta Aquariid meteor shower
Published: July 17, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds
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Robert Goddard's vindication
Published: July 10, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 13 seconds
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The moon moves through the evening, Saturn's shadow, eccentricity
Published: July 3, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds
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Mercury leaving the morning meeting, lunar orbital points converge, and Earth at aphelion
Published: June 26, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 58 seconds
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The loneliest star and the arrow
Published: June 19, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds
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The morning planet lineup stays good, and get ready for the solstice
Published: June 12, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 12 seconds
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Mercury moves more into the morning meeting; Antares and Scorpius
Published: June 5, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds
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An orderly planetary lineup and a dolphin's service remembered
Published: May 29, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 54 seconds
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The lesser known celestial dogs, moon at the nodes
Published: May 22, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds
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Total Lunar Eclipse and Clawing Into Libra's Star Names
Published: May 8, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds
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Planetary lineup continues, Mercury in the evening, Eta Aquariids, Berenices's Hair
Published: May 1, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 24 seconds
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A southern solar eclipse, Virgo, and Astronomy Day
Published: April 24, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 1 second
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April Lyrids and comet names
Published: April 17, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds
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The full spectrum
Published: April 10, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds
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More morning lineup, when the sun acts up
Published: April 3, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 37 seconds
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Jupiter gets hard to see, the seamstress and cowherder in the sky, Arcturus and the World's Fair
Published: March 27, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds
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The ecliptic and the equator
Published: March 20, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds
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Stars and legends of the Big Dipper
Published: March 13, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds
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Morning meetup, four planets in one constellation, and a little about Aries
Published: March 6, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds
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Morning planet meetup continues, quick measurements
Published: Feb. 27, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds
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Morning merriment; the crab
Published: Feb. 20, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 49 seconds
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More morning migration; the sextant; Perseus and Andromeda
Published: Feb. 6, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds
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Sirius things to think about
Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 5 seconds
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Gemini and Jimmy Carter's Unidentified Flying Planet
Published: Jan. 16, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds
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Orion, Colorfully Named Iris and a River Runs Through It
Published: Jan. 9, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds
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Quadrantids, Earth at perihelion, planets hiding planets
Published: Jan. 2, 2022, 6 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 28 seconds
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Amazingly afar Andromeda
Published: Dec. 26, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds
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Mercury meek in the evening, Comet Leonard approaches the sun, and Star of Bethlehem
Published: Dec. 19, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 33 seconds
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Comet Leonard enters the evening and how asteroids are named
Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
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Geminid Meteor Mystery and Preserving Darkness
Published: Dec. 5, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds
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Three planets in the evening, Mars in the morning, Comet Leonard, Antarctic eclipse
Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds
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Thanksgiving skies of 400 years ago and an Antarctic eclipse
Published: Nov. 21, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds
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Spilling the facts on Aquarius
Published: Nov. 14, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds
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A nearly total lunar eclipse
Published: Nov. 7, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds
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Getting closer to and farther from the sun at the same time
Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes
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Emerging Mercury and Mars; Spy on Jupiter's spot; Venus by Ophiuchus; the Hyades
Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Venus is the scorpion's head, Lacerta, and more about Mira and Algol
Published: Oct. 10, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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A splendid clutter in Scorpius, opposite behavior by stars on opposite sides of the sky, the wonderful fading star
Published: Oct. 3, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Daytime meteor shower, Venus goes through the diamond, and Capricornus
Published: Sept. 26, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Equal day and night--or not
Published: Sept. 19, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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September 2021 astronomical events
Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Northern solstice on Mars and interstellar space
Published: Aug. 22, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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A traditional blue moon, Mars and Mercury meet up, and identifying satellites
Published: Aug. 15, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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August 2021's astronomical events and the martyr's tears
Published: Aug. 1, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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July 2021 astronomical events
Published: June 27, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Berenice's Hair and Earth at Aphelion
Published: June 13, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Annular solar eclipse of June 10--and more
Published: June 6, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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June 2021 astronomical events
Published: May 30, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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The Second Most Important Star in the Sky and Sidereal Days
Published: May 23, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Total Lunar Eclipse, Ten Year Astronomy Survey, and Wasat?
Published: May 16, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Measuring Distances to the Stars, Gemini
Published: May 9, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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May's morning zoo and Messier objects
Published: May 2, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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May 2021 astronomical events
Published: April 25, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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The April astronomical shower and seeing over the horizon
Published: April 18, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Dark Skies and Venutian Phases
Published: April 4, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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April 2021 astronomical events
Published: March 28, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Leo Minor, The Egg and the Equinox, and No Green Stars
Published: March 14, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Meteors and Near-Earth Asteroids
Published: March 7, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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March 2021 astronomical events
Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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February 2021 astronomical events
Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Mercurial Mercury and Sirius Stuff
Published: Jan. 24, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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January 2021's astronomical events
Published: Jan. 3, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Get to Know Your New Telescope
Published: Dec. 27, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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Solstice and lunistice
Published: Dec. 13, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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December 2020 astronomical events
Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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Penumbral eclipse, Aldebaran, and the coming great conjunction
Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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Leonid meteor showers
Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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November 2020 astronomical events
Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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Venus and Mercury at perihelion and blue moons
Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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Mercury at inferior conjunction; the moon passes Jupiter and Saturn
Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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The Great Conjunction of 2020
Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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Mars at opposition 2020
Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
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SkyCaramba - Halloween Full Moons
Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 5:45 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes
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