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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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00:05:23

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.

00:04:50

Eccentricity

SkyCaramba ·

2025/04/13

Two planets are at aphelion this week. Their aphelion and perihelion distances reveal just how elliptical their orbits are.

00:04:17

Sideral and solar days

SkyCaramba ·

2025/04/06

Two planets are moving eastward in the morning sky. But for now, the sun's moving eastward faster. The way things look, the stars are climbing the sky each morning faster than those planets or the sun. I'll explain this effect of the difference between the sidereal and solar days.

00:04:26

Color changing stars

SkyCaramba ·

2025/03/30

One more time, the moon reaches as far north as it can.Try to see Venus in the morning.Mars rides high at dusk.And sometimes, stars seem to change colors because of other stars next to them. You can try to make it happen in your own telescope!

00:05:02

Partial solar eclipse and counting lunar months

SkyCaramba ·

2025/03/23

Venus and Mercury are on the other side of the sun. A partial solar eclipse happens in the northern hemisphere. And some people keep count of how many lunar months have gone by since some moment.

00:06:02

Moon farthest south and equinox egg absurdity

SkyCaramba ·

2025/03/16

The moon's heading toward the farthest south it will go for the next two decades. Venus and Mercury head to conjunction. And why is there an old tale about being able to stand an egg on its end only on the equinox?

00:05:41

Total lunar eclipse and astronomy times

SkyCaramba ·

2025/03/09

Planets are disappearing from the evening sky, but Venus is a good guide for finding Mercury. There's a total lunar eclipse this week. You can usually still see some lunar features during totality. And Universal Time isn't universally understood.

00:05:29

Why we can see nebulae

SkyCaramba ·

2025/03/02

Saturn's lost in the sun glow as it leaves the evening sky. Mercury and Venus are leaving soon. Last chance to see the moon as far north as it goes. Find out about next week's total lunar eclipse. And learn why we see nebulae.

00:05:59

Ringless Saturn--out of sight

SkyCaramba ·

2025/02/23

Sometimes, Saturn appears ringless. We're about to cross the ring plane, from which we see--or don't see--the rings edge-on. Unfortunately, we won't get to see this phenomenon when it happens in a few weeks.

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