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SkyCaramba

Podcast about astronomy and the joys of watching the skies at night--and sometimes during the day

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00:04:29

Virgo; Astronomy Day

SkyCaramba ·

2023/04/23

Vanishing Mercury. The moon and Venus. Mars by Pollux. Saturn in the morning. And still no Jupiter. Virgo is a constellation of many identities. Just who she is depends on who's telling you. Astronomy Day is this week.

00:04:03

An eclipse, a meteor shower, and more

SkyCaramba ·

2023/04/16

Mercury sinks sunward. Uranus goes with it. Venus plows past the Pleiades. Mars in Gemini. A Saturn-moon pairing. Jupiter still too close to the sun to see. A reminder about the hybrid solar eclipse. And a comet that last came close to the sun in 1861 provides the annual meteor shower called the April Lyrids. The shower peaks at the end of this week.

00:07:17

Hybrid solar eclipse

SkyCaramba ·

2023/04/09

Mercury at greatest elongation with Uranus nearby. Venus slides by the Pleiades. Mars makes way through Gemini. Saturn stays in Aquarius. Jupiter greets the sun. Last quarter moon. A hybrid solar eclipse--annular in some places, total in others--happens next week. Learn why it's that way and where you can see it.

00:04:21

Dark skies matter

SkyCaramba ·

2023/04/02

Mercury marches into the evening. Venus approaches the Pleiades. Jupiter heads toward the sun. Full moon. Do what you can to preserve dark skies. Light pollution isn't just ruining astronomy. It's bad for nature.

00:03:26

Neptune in a new light; the raspberry taste at the...

SkyCaramba ·

2023/03/26

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of Neptune that some describe as ghostly. A chemical compound detected near the center of the Milky Way galaxy is partly responsible for a fruit's taste. Jupiter disappears into the sunset and has a close call with Mercury along the way. Venus passes by Uranus. Mars passes by Castor's feet.

00:05:19

Aries at the equinox; the first asteroid at opposition

SkyCaramba ·

2023/03/19

Mercury joins Jupiter and Venus in the evening. Equinox is this week. The sun isn't entering Aries now, no matter what you've been told. A daytime occultation of Venus. And Ceres is at opposition.

00:03:34

First photographs of the moon and stars

SkyCaramba ·

2023/03/12

Venus dominates the early evening. Mars remains up until around midnight. Jupiter and Vesta are close. Mercury's at superior conjunction. The anniversary of the first detailed picture of the moon is coming up. That was more than 180 years ago.

00:07:00

Distance on the sky dome

SkyCaramba ·

2023/03/05

Mercury's already in retreat in the morning. Venus marches more into the evening. There's still time to see Jupiter while it begins a long goodbye to the evening sky. And learn what is meant by the different ways of measuring how close two objects are when they're in conjunction.

00:04:40

Venus and Jupiter paired, Saturn and Mercury trade...

SkyCaramba ·

2023/02/26

Venus and Jupiter will appear very close this week. Saturn relieves Mercury of morning duty.

00:04:43

Venus keeps climbing, Cetus the sea monster, and the...

SkyCaramba ·

2023/02/19

Venus keeps climbing the evening sky. Cetus the sea monster sets. At the heart of Leo is a star shaped like an egg.

00:05:41

Venus passes Neptune very close! And the unicorn

SkyCaramba ·

2023/02/12

Venus has a super close conjunction with Neptune this week. This is a good time to look at them in a telescope. And a beast who appears in fables going back thousands of years somehow never got a constellation until somewhat recently. There's a unicorn on the celestial dome now.

00:04:45

The radio sun

SkyCaramba ·

2023/02/05

Most of the planet watching is in the evening this week. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passes by Mars in our sky. Learn about how someone discovered that the sun emits radio waves and why that was kept a secret for a few years.

00:05:52

Catch sight of the comet

SkyCaramba ·

2023/01/29

Saturn sinks toward sunset. Venus climbs toward Jupiter. And a comet crosses the sky.

00:04:32

The little dog and the first Pluto pictures

SkyCaramba ·

2023/01/22

The brightest star in Canis Minor (the little dog) has some things in common with the brightest star in Canis Major (the big dog). This week is the anniversary of Clyde Tombaugh taking the pictures that led to the discovery of Pluto.

00:03:46

Venus meets Saturn, the moon has a close perigee, and...

SkyCaramba ·

2023/01/15

Venus climbs Capricornus for a close call with Saturn. Jupiter's at perihelion. Mars moves eastward again. The moon occults Zubenelgenubi and has its closest perigee in five years. Mercury moves to the morning. Pluto's in conjunction with the sun.

00:05:21

Mercury moves to the morning

SkyCaramba ·

2023/01/08

Venus climbs Capricornus toward Saturn, Jupiter reigns above them, Mars turns around, Mercury is coming out of inferior conjunction and moving to the morning.

00:04:35

Two planets at perihelion, Venus climbs toward...

SkyCaramba ·

2023/01/01

Two planets are at perihelion this week. Some people have a hard time believing it about one of them. Mercury says so long to the evening sky. Venus climbs toward Saturn. And the moon occults Mars again.

00:04:18

The asteroid belt's not densely packed and why...

SkyCaramba ·

2022/12/25

Mars at equinox. Martian clouds. The asteroid belt isn't nearly as dense as shown on TV. Planets don't twinkle--usually.

00:05:50

Mercury at greatest elongation and the longest days...

SkyCaramba ·

2022/12/18

Mercury's at greatest elongation and near Venus. Jupiter and Saturn are easy evening sights. So is Mars. Earth's at solstice. These are the longest days of the year as measured by high noon to high noon.

00:04:55

The so-called lunar standstill and the Geminid meteor...

SkyCaramba ·

2022/12/11

Mercury and Venus trek across the northern part of Sagittarius as they barely make it into the evening sky. The moon goes farther north and south each month as it approaches a so-called major lunar standstill. The Geminid meteor shower peaks this week. The first astronomers who saw this shower described it as not very active, but things have changed.

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