Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Today: April opens with a visual challenge in the western skies. A waxing Crescent Moon appears just above the star cluster, the Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades, due west, one third of the way up at 8:15, settling lower and to the right through the evening. The...

March 31, 2025

Sunrise: 6:33 AM Sunset: 7:16 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 43 minutes The final storm of a very snowy March left record depths of snow on the ground on this date in 2001. East Alstead, NH recorded 12 inches of snow bringing the total to 72 inches of snow for...

Monday, March 31, 2025

Today: Is March going out like a lion? Leo the Lion continues to climb higher in the March evening skies. Its brightest star – Regulus – is more than half way above the southeast horizon at 8:30 PM EDT. Looking above and left of Regulus, the stars form a curve like...