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Cosmic Corner

Monthly What's in the Night Sky presented by Paul Evans and Sinéad Mannion

FEB 28

Episode 7 - What's in the March Night Sky

What's in the Night Sky for March? Cosmic Corner is presented by Paul Evans, Sinéad Mannion, and Graham Sales. Highlights for March's podcast include details on upcoming Irish Astronomy Week, more on irishastronomyweek.ie, and Midlands Astronomy event Cosmos, see midlandsastronomy.ie. .Solar cycle 25 is very active so be on the lookout for Aurora, Paul will tell you the best times and websites to use. March skies make for a possible Mercury sighting, a rarity even for the most experienced astronomer and Graham updates us on the Japanese lunar lander, Slim ... Keep Looking Up!... Paul, Graham & Sinéad

20 min
FEB 2

Episode 6 - What's in the Night Sky for February?

What's in the Night Sky for February? Cosmic Corner is presented by Paul Evans, Sinéad Mannion, and Graham Sales. Highlights for February's podcast include details on upcoming Irish Astronomy Week, more on irishastronomyweek.ie, see dancing morning planets in our winter sky, Orion is still on display, Paul tells us about the Artemis slippage and find out how this week is historically a sad week for NASA. We discuss the sad demise of Ingenuity but how much it achieved going beyond its initial remit. Finally, Paul makes us super jealous of his new toy, the Seestar S50. ... Keep Looking Up!... Paul, Graham & Sinéad

25 min
JAN 1

Episode 5 - What's in the January Night Sky

What's in the Night Sky for January? Cosmic Corner is presented by Paul Evans, Sinéad Mannion, and Graham Sales. Highlights for January's podcast include early risers will be treated to a visible Venus, while Saturn and Jupiter are evening stars. Also, a chance to see the Quandrantids meteor shower on the 3rd and 4th January in the Ursa Major constellation or as its better known as The Plough. And some interesting calendar musings... May your skies be clear...Paul, Graham & Sinéad

17 min
11/27/2023

Epidsode 4: What's in the December Night's Sky

What's in the Night Sky for December? Cosmic Corner is presented by Paul Evans, Sinéad Mannion, and Graham Sales. Highlights for December's podcast include details of the upcoming Galway Astrofest taking place on 27th January 2024, further information can be found at http://www.galwayastronomyclub.ie/. We are giving away 2 tickets to this great event. Early risers will be treated to a visible Venus, while Saturn and Jupiter are evening stars. Also, a chance to see the Geminids meteor shower on the 14th and 15th December in our favourite constellation Orion. May your skies be clear...Paul, Graham & Sinéad

18 min
10/29/2023

Episode 3 - What's in the November Night Sky

What's in the Night Sky for November presented by Paul Evans and Sinéad Mannion. Highlights for November's podcast include details of the annual Mayo Dark Sky Festival taking place the 3rd - 5th November, a great weekend in the Irish Astronomical calendar - https://www.mayodarkskyfestival.ie/. Early risers will be treated to a visible Venus while Saturn and Jupiter are evening stars. Also visible will be Uranus and Neptune. A full moon on the 27th of the month and a day-time Venus Lunar Occultation. Also, a chance to see the Leonids meteor shower, their peak is on the 18th, and on the 10th Comet C/2023 H2 (Lemmon) will reach its closest approach...May your skies be clear...Paul & Sinéad

21 min
09/29/2023

Episode 2

What's in the Night Sky for October presented by Paul Evans and Sinéad Mannion. Highlights for October include highly active Solar Cycle 25, ISS morning object from 21st October, more Summer Triangle, Orion is rising, a harbinger of winter, but a welcome one for us astronomers! Watch out for the Draconid Meteor Shower on the 8th and 9th. Also on the 21st and 22nd, the Orionids are visible, they are the dust from the comet trail of Halley's Comet. Finally, new moon is on the 14th and the 1st quarter is on the 22nd...Keep looking up... Websites for aurora spotting - IAA's irishastro.org, Nasa's spaceweather.com, and Aurora UK Facebook group.Paul's photography website - pgephotos.co.uk

27 min
08/31/2023

Episode 1 - What's in the Night Sky for September

What's in the Night Sky for September presented by Paul Evans and Sinéad Mannion

22 min

7 Episodes

Monthly What's in the Night Sky presented by Paul Evans and Sinéad Mannion

Creator

Paul Evans & Sinéad Mannion
Years Active

2023 - 2024
Episodes

7
Rating

Clean
Show Website

Cosmic Corner