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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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00:05:17

Total lunar eclipse and a vision test

SkyCaramba ·

2025/08/31

The coming full moon will be eclipsed. Mars and Virgo set. Jupiter and a star give you a vision test. Venus passes by the beehive.

00:04:57

Class divisions and meteor showers

SkyCaramba ·

2025/08/24

The moon passes Mars. Saturn and Fomalhaut shine bright. Three planets still give morning greetings. And it's not too late to see Perseid meteors. I tell you about how meteor showers are put into four classes according to how easy they are to see.

00:05:24

Here's Huygens

SkyCaramba ·

2025/08/17

Three naked eye planets greet morning sky watchers. Saturn rises earlier in the evening. The moon reaches northern lunistice. And let's learn about Christiaan Huygens and how he leveled up from Galileo's work.

00:05:07

Martian ice caps

SkyCaramba ·

2025/08/10

Venus passes Jupiter in Gemini for a nice morning display. The moon passes by Saturn. And the Martian north pole is pointed toward us. Find out what it and its southern counterpart are made of and how they're different.

00:05:10

Perseids possible already

SkyCaramba ·

2025/08/03

Mars just passed Zavijava and heads toward Zaniah. Saturn and Neptune rise mid-evening. Uranus is near the Pleiades. Mercury makes it to the morning. And you can start looking for Perseid meteors if you haven't already. I tell you about the comet they come from.

00:04:27

The Great Square and the Summer Triangle

SkyCaramba ·

2025/07/27

Mercury heads to inferior conjunction. Mars gets close to Zavijava. The teapot's on the meridian at dusk. Venus reaches Castor's feet in pursuit of Jupiter. And a couple of big geometry figures are starting points for many beginning astronomers.

00:05:48

Pluto and its companions

SkyCaramba ·

2025/07/20

The moon moves from morning to evening. Mercury is lost in the sunlight. Mars heads toward Virgo. Saturn goes retrograde. Venus continues to shine in the morning. Jupiter begins its morning appearance. And this is the best time all year to see Pluto--if you can.

00:04:50

The fear of germs from space

SkyCaramba ·

2025/07/13

Mercury retreats from the evening. Mars keeps crawling under Leo. Jupiter reaches Castor's legs. And recall how the Apollo 11 astronauts didn't get to go home right after their mission.

00:05:23

No gold star for a.i.

SkyCaramba ·

2025/07/06

Mercury moves away from a donkey star. Mars is beneath the lion's belly. Saturn is stationary by the one of the two linked fish. Venus pulls up along the Hyades V in the bull's face. And for those wondering how much non-human involvement goes into these podcasts, I assure you very little.

00:04:28

Appreciating Galileo's mistake

SkyCaramba ·

2025/06/29

The moon hides Mars and Spica this week. Mercury's at its best for the current evening showing. Earth is at aphelion. And Saturn and Neptune appear close. So do Venus and Uranus. We can use these close calls to appreciate how Galileo mistook Neptune for a star.

00:03:34

The centaur and the wolf

SkyCaramba ·

2025/06/22

Jupiter's still out of view. Mercury's up in the evening. Mars is at the lion's belly. Venus and Saturn show in the morning. And see a fabled centaur and an unstoried wolf cross the meridian in the evening.

00:05:28

Midnight sun. Twilight, too.

SkyCaramba ·

2025/06/15

Jupiter is out of sight this week. Mercury passes through Gemini. Mars reaches the heart of Leo. Venus gets a visit from the moon. And the June solstice is coming. Most of us know that means midnight sun from far northern locations. However, we don't often think about midnight twilight from places not so far north.

00:05:04

Mesmerizing Mira

SkyCaramba ·

2025/06/08

Mercury and Jupiter pass each other in the evening. Mars continues moving toward Regulus. Venus is coming off its best morning appearance. And Mira is coming into magnified views for northern sky watchers. This star is called wonderful for many reasons, one of which is it seems to vanish and reappear.

00:05:36

Regulus Revelations

SkyCaramba ·

2025/06/01

Jupiter is almost at the feet of Gemini. Mercury moves to the evening. Venus shines bright from the Pisces linkage. A mostly daytime meteor shower. And Mars approaches the heart of Leo. There's a lot more to that star, Regulus, than meets the naked eye.

00:05:12

Semi-circle Mercury and solstice on Mars

SkyCaramba ·

2025/05/25

Jupiter's long slow goodbye from the evening sky continues. Mars is still prominent. Venus and Saturn look nice at dawn. Mercury approaches its semi-circle phase. But for some reason, we don't see it that way exactly when we should. And Mars has its northern solstice.

00:05:18

Can you see stars in the daytime?

SkyCaramba ·

2025/05/18

Jupiter and Mars climb among the evening stars. Mercury sinks into the sunrise. And can you see stars in the daytime from the bottom of a smokestack or deep well? Some serious studies have been done.

00:04:01

A monstrous zodiac omission

SkyCaramba ·

2025/05/11

The morning planets are drifting apart. The evening planets climb toward their next destinations. The moon hides Antares. And there's a monster of a constellation several solar system objects pass through, yet we don't think of it as part of the zodiac.

00:05:36

Not a planet and not a star

SkyCaramba ·

2025/05/04

Mars in the Beehive. The moon over Zavijava. A morning planet grouping includes two binocular solar system objects. And planetoid and asteroid are two words that can mean that same thing. When the first such objects were discovered, astronomers weren't sure what to call them. They had characteristics of planets and asteroids.

00:05:10

Seeing very new and very old moons

SkyCaramba ·

2025/04/27

The moon moves into the evening sky. There's a record for seeing the youngest moon, but nobody seems to make a contest out of seeing the oldest moon.Vesta is at opposition.A cluster of planets adorns the morning sky close to the horizon.

00:05:33

Hair way up there

SkyCaramba ·

2025/04/20

Mars makes a beeline for the beehive.Virgo has been known by a variety of names.Mercury's at greatest elongation.And hats off--or hair's off--for the only constellation linked to a real person.

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