by FLEK Admin | Jul 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: High in the east-southeast at 10:30 are three bright stars which make up the Summer Triangle. The highest and brightest is Vega, lower and to the left is Deneb, and lowest and more toward the south is Altair. Altair comes from an Arabic word meaning the “flying...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 16, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:21 AM Sunset: 8:31 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 10 minutes On this date in 1997 the sun came out to reveal a scene of terrible destruction. St. Swithin’s Day rains severely flooded portions of northwestern Vermont, particularly the community of...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Once the moon has fully risen by 11:20 PM, you needn’t wait long to see its celestial companion for the night, This time it is the planet Saturn, which will appear barely below the moon by 11:45, perhaps a few minutes earlier, assuming a flat horizon and...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 15, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:21 AM Sunset: 8:32 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 11 minutes It is St. Swithin’s Day – whom some have coined as the Patron Saint of weather people due to the weather saying associated with him – “If it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The southern end of the Milky Way hosts a rich variety types of objects because it is the center of our galaxy, though binoculars or telescopes are needed. Looking at the red star Antares, due south at 9:45 PM, ordinary binoculars will show a fuzzy object...
