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Lughnasadh is celebrated near the midpoint of the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox (Northern Hemisphere). It observes the traditional start of the harvest season.

Just as North America experienced twice-in-a-lifetime solar eclipses in 2017 and 2024, on August 2nd 2027 Europe and Africa will have their turn. The eclipse will start in Morocco, sweep across the Mediterranean Sea, and[...]

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Hooray! Dark skies (no moon) interfering with one of the best showers of the year, producing up to 60 meteors per hour at its peak. Although the predicted peak falls during the night of August[...]

To experience greatest totality, you might get a lucky break in the clouds in Greenland or Iceland... but unlikely according to Eclipsophile: "Two-thirds of the Moon’s shadow path falls over water and even a casual[...]

 

 

Is that a plane landing in the western sky, just after sunset? No, it's Venus at its greatest eastern elongation (farthest from the Sun and less washed out.) Did you know that Venus has phases,[...]

 

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This is very nearly a full lunar eclipse at 96%, and it will be at least somewhat visible to most of the population on earth (from Alaska to Egypt)

The term "Sturgeon Moon" refers to the full moon in August and originates from Native American tribes in North America. They named it after the sturgeon fish, which was abundant and most easily caught in[...]

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