by FLEK Admin | Aug 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Low in the failing southwestern twilight between 8:45 and 9:15 PM, you will find the bright, bluish-white star Spica nearing the end of its viewing for the year. Although Spica ranks just outside the top-ten brightest stars, at 250 light years away, actually...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 14, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:52 AM Sunset: 7:57 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 5 minutes The second peak of August’s greatest heat wave took place on the 14th and 15th of 1944. Wilder, Vermont reached 100 degrees, while St. Johnsbury was not far behind with 98, and Burlington edged...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Although now slightly past its peak, the Perseid Meteor Shower will continue tonight, as the Earth passes through the debris of Comet Swift-Tuttle, with thousands of tiny pieces of dust and rock that burn up in our atmosphere 40 to 70 miles above us....
by FLEK Admin | Aug 13, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:51 AM Sunset: 7:58 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 7 minutes On this date in 1955 the rains kept coming and coming. It was the remnants of Hurricane Connie, whose dying center was tracking through Pennsylvania into western New York. As the rains finally...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight is the projected peak of the Perseid meteor shower, part of a “double-feature” celestial show. This year’s view of the Perseids won’t be helped by the moon, which was full just three nights ago, and is still 84 percent illuminated. Even so,...
