Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Today: Take a look below the feet of Orion, where a relative unknown constellation appears – Lepus, the Hare. At 9:15 PM, when Orion and the Hare are due south, look below Orion’s feet for the face of Lepus, looking to the left, with faint, tallish ears...

January 20, 2025

Sunrise: 7:19 AM Sunset: 4:44 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 25 minutes 31 years ago, the first of two severe cold spells brought record cold on this date in 1994. Following a heavy snowstorm of 10 to 20 inches on the 18th, arctic air settled in over the fresh,...

Monday, January 20, 2025

Today: Just as the clocks chime midnight, the waning Crescent Moon rises in the Last Quarter Moon rises just below one of the brighter stars we see, Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, the Virgin. The pair edge up to one quarter of the way above the...