Friday, October 17, 2025

Today: Cresting due south this evening at 11 o’clock, Saturn is easy to locate, about half way up. Then, turn your gaze lower, more to the right of due south, where a rather bright, but rarely noticed star makes its best evening appearance of the year. Known to...

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Today: Guess who is now fully risen before midnight? The Winter champion Orion lifts into the east and southeast for night owls, tracking to due south by 4:45 AM tomorrow morning, and then heads into the southwest just as twilight begins, around 6 o’clock....

October 16, 2025

Sunrise: 7:06 AM Sunset: 6:05 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 59 minutes Many birds are on the wing this time of year, as insect-eaters are finding the pickings becoming more scarce. Yellow-rumped warblers are joined by song sparrows, flickers, woodcocks, killdeer...

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Today: Night owls at 3:00 tomorrow morning will see a waning Crescent Moon due east, accompanied by the royal star Regulus, the “heart” of Leo, the Lion. If that’s too early, they climb higher into the southeast, about two thirds of the way up from...

October 15, 2025

Sunrise: 7:05 AM Sunset: 6:06 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 1 minutes The north-south orientation of the Champlain valley bounded by relatively high mountains through the Adirondacks and Green Mountains, forces south winds to accelerate through with greater...