by FLEK Admin | Apr 27, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Orion is now very low in the western skies, by the end of twilight, his feet along the horizon by 9:00 PM, with his belt only visible with a perfect view to the west and southwest. Orion’s stars are among the brightest in the sky because they are part of our...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 27, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:47 AM Sunset: 7:49 PM Length of day: 14 hours and 2 minutes Residents throughout northern New York and northern New England woke up to a mid-winter’s scene on this date in 1874. The heaviest snow storm of the snowiest April on record dropped 15 inches in...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 26, 2026 | NightSky
Today: By 9:00 PM the constellation Corona Borealis, or Northern Crown, rises into the east-northeast, one third of the way from the lower left of Arcturus, and to the upper right of Vega, just rising in the northeast. Its middle star, alternatively named Alpheca or,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 26, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:49 AM Sunset: 7:48 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 59 minutes The Passumpsic Valley was recovering from a flood on this date in 1866, which took out 4 bridges between Lyndonville and St. Johnsbury. But records from nearby Lancaster, NH and Lunenburg, VT...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 25, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Tonight Leo catches up to the Moon. So much so, in fact, that Regulus will briefly disappear behind the Moon in much of the continental U.S. But such an occultation will be a near miss for those of us in New England. Regulus will pass just barely over the top...
