Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Today: Around 8:15 this evening, the waxing Crescent Moon emerges from the twilight, about one third of the way up in western sky. About this time, Jupiter comes into view, below it, a fine pairing that settles to about one quarter of the way up in the west-northwest...

April 30, 2025

Sunrise: 5:43 AM Sunset: 7:53 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 10 minutes It is not unusual to see flooding this time of year as soggy ground and remaining snow in the mountains adds to the spring rain. However, fourteen years ago, in 2011, rapid snowmelt, combined...

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Today: Early risers should find a low, level horizon to the east and southeast, if they hope to catch of glimpse of the ringed-world Saturn rising in the brightening twilight, quite low, but made a little easier by the presence of the far-brighter Venus. Once you spot...

April 29, 2025

Sunrise: 5:44 AM Sunset: 7:52 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 8 minutes On this day in 1874, it was snowing again in northern New England. The final installment of snow in a very snowy month brought another 10 inches of snow to Woodstock, VT, raising the snow on...

Monday, April 28, 2025

Today: Barely past new, the barest of a crescent Moon will follow the setting sun toward the horizon in the west-northwest. Appearing shortly after, above the Moon, will be the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. Although they are faint, and not easy to see in the fading...