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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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00:05:43

Staying up all night with the fishes

SkyCaramba ·

2026/10/04

Venus and Mercury pair up in the evening.The moon passes by Mars and Jupiter.The Draconid meteor shower peaks.Several objects are at opposition or close to it. And they're in Cetus and Pisces.

00:05:05

Jupiter's jaunt behind the moon

SkyCaramba ·

2026/09/27

Mars at equinox.The moon hides the Pleiades.Mercury farthest from the sun.Venus goes retrograde.And there's an upcoming occultation of Jupiter. The moon will pass in front of the big planet. But you can also see Jupiter's four brightest moons get hidden too.

00:05:33

Try to tune in to another meteor shower

SkyCaramba ·

2026/09/20

Neptune at opposition.Mercury passes Spica.Another daytime meteor shower. You may see some meteors early in the morning. But these meteors are mostly entering the atmosphere by day. Maybe you can listen for them on the radio.

00:05:04

Equinox. Equal? NOT!

SkyCaramba ·

2026/09/13

The moon passes by Venus.Mercury makes headway into the evening.Mars is closest to Pollux.Southern lunistice and lunar apogee.Not everywhere gets 12 hours of sunlight on the equinox. Some places don't get exactly 12 hours at all--ever.

00:05:23

What's in a name? History!

SkyCaramba ·

2026/09/06

The moon at apogee and heading south.Uranus goes retrograde.Mercury moves toward Venus.What's in a name? Maybe a few thousand years of human oral history. It doesn't seem so now, but Milky Way and galaxy go back to the same origin when people described what they saw in the sky.

00:05:04

Star spangled with Spica

SkyCaramba ·

2026/08/30

The moon passes by Saturn.Venus is at aphelion.The moon reaches its farthest north.Venus passes by Spica, whose light left the star around the time of the American Revolution.

00:04:52

A deep partial lunar eclipse

SkyCaramba ·

2026/08/23

We get a deep partial lunar eclipse this week. Just a little deeper and it would be total.Mars continues making its way through Gemini.Jupiter rises just before the sun.Venus approaches Spica.

00:05:42

Mira on the downside

SkyCaramba ·

2026/08/16

The constellation Cetus rises about midnight. The variable star Mira remains beyond naked eye visibility.Mars reaches the feet of Gemini.Mercury zooms into the sunrise away from Jupiter.

00:05:44

Total solar eclipse and Perseid meteor shower

SkyCaramba ·

2026/08/09

There's a total solar eclipse this week.Venus reaches greatest elongation.Mercury, Mars, and the moon delight in the morning.And watch for Perseid meteors.

00:05:25

Eye to eye with Mars and both inner planets at dichotomy

SkyCaramba ·

2026/08/02

Earth is eye-to-eye with Mars in a manner of speaking.The moon passes by Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus.Venus approaches Porrima.Venus and Mercury could both appear at semi-circle phase on the same day, even though math says they shouldn't.

00:05:14

Venus by the lion's tail

SkyCaramba ·

2026/07/26

Venus is the only naked eye planet in our evening sky. It's near the lion's tail. Or it's by what some ancient observers likened to a dog pen.Saturn and Mars shine in the morning. Mercury's joining them.

00:05:52

Two more faint objects at opposition together

SkyCaramba ·

2026/07/19

Venus is below the lion's belly.Saturn's rings are tipped to us.Mercury makes it to the morning.Two faint solar system objects were at opposition together earlier this month. Now, two more are.

00:05:09

About Earth's aphelion

SkyCaramba ·

2026/07/12

Jupiter is exiting the evening sky.The moon passes Regulus and Venus.Saturn's rings at their best for a while.Orion's hunting trip begins in the morning.Earth is getting closer to the sun now, but that's not why it's so hot in the northern hemisphere lately.

00:05:43

Two asteroids at opposition

SkyCaramba ·

2026/07/05

Two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter are up all night this week. One got its name because of two sad events that happened on the same date 13 years apart.Venus passes by Regulus.Jupiter approaches the crab.The moon passes Saturn.

00:05:40

Mercury retreats and what the American colonists saw...

SkyCaramba ·

2026/06/28

Mercury is leaving the evening sky.Jupiter's still there but won't be for long.Venus shines bright at dusk.Mars and Uranus have a close call.And find out what the people who didn't want to be British subjects anymore 250 years ago saw in the sky on July 4, 1776.

00:05:29

The moon in the room

SkyCaramba ·

2026/06/21

The moon passes through a part of the sky ancient Chinese observers described as a room.Mercury turns around.Mars is near the seven sisters.

00:05:27

The moon by our evening planets

SkyCaramba ·

2026/06/14

Venus enters the beehive.Mercury's at greatest elongation.The moon passes three planets in the evening sky.The sun at solstice.

00:05:20

Three planets in one constellation

SkyCaramba ·

2026/06/07

Three planets are in one constellation.Mercury by Mebsuta.The moon will be at its closest since December.Two asteroids appear near Saturn.

00:05:50

Three planets in the west and a meteor shower on the...

SkyCaramba ·

2026/05/31

Three planets are in the west at dusk. Two planets are up in the morning. And there's a meteor shower whose radiant is up mostly in the daytime. But you may be able to detect the meteors with a radio.

00:05:18

Comparing the moon's sides

SkyCaramba ·

2026/05/24

Two constellations are each accompanied by two planets. The moon passes by the lion and the maiden. Why the far side of the moon looks different.

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