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Mars brighter than Jupiter? That sounds impossible, but I'll check it out myself! Absolutely, I'll make a video looking ahead to some future events soon.

​@@CaoimhinsContentthere is a cool trick to find mars at its brightest Wait until it's July or June Simulate year by year so earth's location doesn't change but Mars's location changes Eventually Mars will come in Sagittarius or Capricornus and I'm guaranteed when mars will be at opposition around Sagittarius or Capricornus it will be brighter than Jupiter at all times (brighter than-2.66)

I had a lighting issue that stopped my greenscreen from working, but I am working on a solution to prevent such issues in the future!

Usually the focus on a binoculars or telescope can "take over" for the function of glasses, but if your eyesight is complex then it might be worth trying through the glasses as well, just in case. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, the Andromeda Galaxy is up pretty high at the moment, if you look back on my channel I have a video featuring the Square of Pegasus where I explain how to find it. Either way, I would start by maybe looking at the Pleiades or Orion's Sword, and making sure that you can see those clearly and in sharp focus, then hunting for galaxies after that.

@@CaoimhinsContent thank you I'll try with my glasses too.

Best of luck!

And they're all still brothers in the Greek tradition!

That is a good idea, that's absolutely something I can make a video out of, thanks again! Oh, what event?

​​@@CaoimhinsContentin the pre dawn sky there are 3 planets and our Cresent 🌙 sandwiched between them 3 It is a magnificent sight to see in the morning time Mercury Venus and Jupiter all in span of 10 degrees Extremely shocked to see Venus is still brighter than anything else even earth can't be brighter Even though earth is much closer to mars And has a little big visual diameter This shocked me more than any space fact in over a year

Nice, three planets close together like that is awesome, I'll certainly have to keep it in mind for August. It is crazy, the reflective atmosphere makes a really big difference, Venus is a great example of how important albedo is for stuff like that.

​​@@CaoimhinsContentI'll keep checking this year and notify you about something special of a sky event Next time such would happen in May 19 2026, It's a cool conjunction too with the 3 brightest objects visible from earth

I don't usually do live coverage, I prefer to let people know things a bit in advance, rather than looking at them as they happen. I will however cover the full 7 planets in the sky once Mercury joins in later. Thankfully, this spectacle isn't actually that rare, though it is nice to get it in the evening rather than the morning.

That's awesome, I don't think we ever get to see it right over head here, at least not often, must have been great to actually photograph it! I love seeing it apparently wink out of existence, the largest man made structure in space just disappearing is so strange to witness. Ah well, I'm sure there'll be another occultation of Mars in the not to distant future

Saw the occultation map of yesterday Ireland is in the map or close Did you get to see it? ​@@CaoimhinsContent

​​@@CaoimhinsContentThe summer of 2033 has mars at opposition with -2.55 magnitude But currently it's only -1.4 or something close Why does the opposition of same planet has so much variation of magnitude?

Nice, not even a decade away! I've been looking, and I think that between the inclinational differences and elliptical shape of the orbits, some oppositions bring us closer than others. There may be other factors as well, like the season on Mars, the icecaps are a lot more reflective. It's probably a few things, but it does seem odd

The occultation was definitely visible, but not for me, too many clouds unfortunately.

That's a great idea! I'm planning on looking at the retrograde motion of Mars at opposition in a video soon, adding seasons and the tilt of Mars to that should work, great suggestion

​@@CaoimhinsContenthaha Happy to help ❤

Welcome from Ireland, thank you so much!

Thank you so much, that's exactly what I aim to be, welcome!

It's a fantastic piece of software, there's a video on my channel from a while back that goes through some of the features as well

Thank you for the triggering inspiration! I think it's just good acoustics, and I am fairly loud naturally, but some day soon I'll have a mic of my own.

​​@@CaoimhinsContentthat day won't be far Hope you get some better video equipment and create even better things for us ❤❤ Also if you can see the moon and Venus both have some light spread out like what happens in light pollution kind of like a bulb far in the fog That looks really cool on Venus though Btw would Jupiter be brighter if it replaces venus We know the consequences but just curious After all Jupiter has a huge reflective surface and more light from the sun to reflect With a greater visual diameter compared to venus

Wow, I guess saying please and thank you to the AI's is paying off!

Fáilte romhat, glad you liked it

Thanks for watching!

Don't you feel bad because you can't see the southern hemisphere sky Even from lower latitude where the sun comes overhead We can't see many stars But cannopus is barely visible People living in Australia have soo much to see Not much is to view here in Northern Hemisphere Maybe it's just become a habit and i have got bored of northern sky But i seriously wish to see the southern sky Do you want to see the southern sky as bad as well?

I don't think I can even see Canopus, not easily anyway! It would be nice to see the Magellanic Clouds and Alpha Centauri, but I think us having Andromeda is a fair trade. What I'd love to see is the core of the Milky Way from near the equator, especially from a desert like the Atacama, that's meant to be a stunning view

​@@CaoimhinsContentThe Core of milky way is getting tougher to see cuz of light pollution everywhere I feel like I've seen the core of Milky way 2-4 times in July of 2024 but it's wasn't like the pictures More like a blackish hue of cloud Sort of like a smoke Sadly i have tried my all but Andromeda galaxy is not possible to view from the sub-urban to rural area

Absolutely, I'm lucky to be relatively near to two International Dark Sky protected areas, so there you can get a really impressive view, but those kinds of darks skies are what you need. It's sad that so many rural areas still have enough light to block out the details.

That's awesome, that does make me happy, I hope you have a great 2025!

Thanks for sharing the poem, happy new year!

Absolutely, it will be a great view, if you're wrapped up against the cold! Humidity is a problem for us too, it's so annoying when something cool happens but it's hidden by haze, hopefully we'll get some clear skies in the new year

Happy Christmas to you too, thanks for the all support and engagement

Nollaig Shona, tá mall níos fear ná faic!

And also to you! Thank you for watching, I'm sure it's a great year ahead!

I might go over the star winter triangle in a video soon, I've been meaning to look at asterisms again

. . Procyon & Sirius .. . Skolan and Bran . Finn's two dogs. .

Mentioning this in the latest video, thanks for letting me know!

That's a good point, I'll have to make a video focusing more on eyepieces themselves at some point. An 8" SCT would be a good example to use as well, they're a good size, 16" is definitely a bit on the pricey side!

Fáilte romhat!

That's interesting, I've only seen that as a further alternative theory, as some sources explain the diffuse NGC 1052 galaxies as being galaxies stripped of dark matter rather than insufficiently dense cores, though I suppose mass distribution would have an effect if MOND is the system. Interesting that you got taught that in high school as well, I didn't do physics for the latter part of my highschool-equivalent, but I don't remember my coevals who did going as far as relativity!

@CaoimhinsContent I am an older physics nerd, I realized dilation explains dark matter over 10 years ago. I made a video on the subject before I found out about those galaxies. There is no doubt in my mind that all galaxies with low mass centers have normal/near normal rotation rates. The best way to understand dilation is to imagine a spaceship traveling at a constant acceleration rate. When the ship reaches 50% light speed, as viewed from an Earthbound observer with a magically powerful telescope, it would appear normal because as the graph shows nothing has changed at that point. When the ship reaches 75% light speed it would appear fuzzy because as the graph shows relativistic effects would be noticeable at that point. When the ship reaches 99% light speed it would not be visible because every aspect of its existence would be smeared through spacetime relative to an Earthbound observer. This is the state of mass in our galactic center. It's not just there, it's everywhere.

@CaoimhinsContent Einstein explained dark matter/galaxy rotation curves in 1939. "The essential result of this investigation is a clear understanding as to why the Schwarzchild singularities (Schwarzchild was the first to raise the issue of General Relativity predicting singularities) do not exist in physical reality. Although the theory given here treats only clusters (star) whose particles move along circular paths it does seem to be subject to reasonable doubt that more general cases will have analogous results. The Schwarzchild singularities do not appear for the reason that matter cannot be concentrated arbitrarily. And this is due to the fact that otherwise the constituting particles would reach the velocity of light." He was referring to dilation. There is no singularity/black hole/concentration of mass in our galactic center. That would violate the known laws of physics.

Okay, I hold with the observational evidence of the supermassive Sagittarius A* black hole, such as the motion of stars near the center, but I do think that violating the known laws of physics is the point, the known laws of physics are insufficient to explain observed phenomenon, necessitating the creation of new laws. Of course, I could certainly be wrong.

@@CaoimhinsContent 99.8% of the mass in our solar system is in the sun. 99.9% of the mass in an atom is in the nucleus. This indicates 100's of trillions of solar masses at the center of common spiral galaxies. There is no way to know this through observation. The interference alone, dilation alone or gravitational lensing alone would make that virtually impossible. The SagA numbers are far too low to be realistic. Other studies concluded far higher numbers. A fundamental question is "why can't we see light from the galactic center". The modern explanation is because gravitational forces are so strong there that not even light can escape, even though the mass of the photon is zero. The original and correct explanation is because the mass/energy there is dilated relative to an Earthbound observer.

Hope you enjoyed the talk!

I will, glad you enjoyed it!

Cinnte!

I'll see if I can find a good way to do that, but if you take a look just above the captions region near the middle of the screen, Stellarium's built in time and date should be visible. It is a little small and you may need to pause the video, but it should be there if you need it.

I'm not sure which pulsating variable you're referring too, but some of the more recently discovered ones wouldn't have their locations in Stellarium by default, I'd have to load them in. Any one in particular?

I think it might be a default or placeholder for small objects in the Minor Planet Center Database, but it could also just be a mistake.

There are definitely some oral histories, I think most are lost or only partly recorded, about certain stars rising at certain times. One issue is names, sometimes a story about a stat rising behind a certain hill at a certain time is recorded, but nobody knows which hill any more because the transmission of Irish across the generations was broken. The various stone circles, some of them certainly seem to track other days, like the equinoxes and cross quarter days. Some passage tombs might line up with certain things rising and setting in certain dates as well. Unfortunately clouds are outside my domain, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some clear skies!

. . Well .. here's the madder part. . As a x physicist, optics& solar cells being my area('93) the stone basins look very similar in shape to a satellite dish. I cannot test this since I'm nobody. Tried contacting some in field. They only have to be wetted( not damaged, by scraping with bones put in) to test how well the basins focus light. The large(broken) newgrande basin would have been the main collector, the other 2 basins for more complicated optic setup. Just from photos, one can see the reflected sheen, un-distorted. That means that the shaping of the basins was extremely high precission work. Any non perfect symmetries would be revealed in distorted sheen [from overhead lights] . If Newgrange is possibly an optics lab, and the evidence suggests this .. modern thought will do anything other than test if ancients were really smart. Know anyone with clout/contacts ? . . Oh, a piece of thread, hung from opposite lips of Basin [Level] would follow the contour almost exactly precisely if the basin is parabolic.. simple test but i'm not cleared for such an exotic non-destructive experiment. .

@@nawhedawhe6905 I would say the best thing is go there after heavy rain, Newgrange is far from waterproof, a good fog could wet the interior pretty well. I'd also suggest going and asking a tour guide to hang a string for you. The people in charge may not want to deal with it, but an individual guide might. However, I will say that the main basin, to me at least, seems a little oblong. The internal curvature is really smooth, but the circumference of the lip doesn't look truly circular. Then again, it's certainly true that Neolithic people generally get far less credit than they are due when it comes to how smart they were. There's a good chance that droplets of water were used for magnification, even if scientific theories of optics came much later.

​@@CaoimhinsContent. . A brillant suggestion to ask a tour guide. . However .... (yup) . the basins needs to be perfectly level [really really], the basins need to be spotless ie. No bones placed within[a recent ignorant action]. . I'd Rather not on de sly, as that could ONLY convince "me" .. what good would that be .. i'd probably, really sound like "nobody can tell me otherwise" then .. . . As for outline shape, u can cut/break off a corner .. the rest still functions perfectly . In modern buses, a "flat" magnifier on de back window allows driver to see Magnified image.. NOT properly flat, but edge rings recessed to "" be flatish" .. the point being .. over all outline shape not important. . A Reflection shows up distortions, if any, very clearly. View reflection in window 30 yds from you. That window is "NOT" flat. Train your eye. . I've NOT seen a sheen from the broken basin, in photos. . Photos of course are NOT definite proof, i know .. . The perfection of the sheen reflections in photos one basin suggests to me that the possibility should [ ..and Can ] be tested. A few internet pics easily found... and just study the sheen carefully. I may be wrong, but it's what i judge as "" exemplary "" perfection, having one time worked/studied in optics. . . If this WAS true.. then you'd want to hear me about how our oldest legends describe a fantastical world/universe... one step at a time. Thanks for responding.

Absolutely, any investigations like that should be public and transparent as much as possible. I'm not in optics myself, buy I am a huge fan of Fresnel lenses, being able to get the magnification flattened like that is fascinating. Another thought, maybe you could get a very good cast or 3d model of the basins, people are pretty guarded with the originals.

Surprisingly, this is an ongoing phoenix! Technically, the smaller star is already "dead", it just keeps getting rejuvenated by material from its companion. So even after it flares this time, it should do it again in another 80 years.

I'm not sure, but I'd say that it just hasn't been loaded in yet. I had to get the orbital dynamics from the Minor Planet Center for the desktop app, I'm not sure if you can do the same on mobile or web.

@@CaoimhinsContent Thanks for the reply. :)

@@ViktorBAd You're very welcome.

Hello!

That was an unfortunate typo, it's 2024 S1, and it may be visible, but mostly for people close to the equator. There is also a chance that it will fall apart as it comes around the Sun.

@@CaoimhinsContent So it will not be visible for those in the northern hemisphere such as myself? I was fortunate enough to actually see Tsuchinshan ATLAS though. I assume this other one would not be as bright?

Not easily, it's very low to the horizon when it's close enough to the Sun to be illuminated, but it does depend how far North you are. It's expected to be brighter than A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas when it's close to the Sun, but that will be quite hard to spot, and probably won't last long.