by FLEK Admin | Oct 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As it emerges from the sun’s glare at around 7 PM, Saturn maintains its current role as the only planet visible in the evening sky. It will rise in the southeast, surrounded by the constellations Cetus, Pisces, and Aquarius. The viewing of other planets...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 14, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:04 AM Sunset: 6:08 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 4 minutes A lengthy cold snap was underway on this date in 1937. Beginning with the 12th, and lasting through the 17th, thermometers fell into the teens, severely damaging vegetation in southern portions...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Ursa Major, better known as the Great Bear, is settling very low along the northern horizon during the evenings, before rising back into the north-northeast after 10 o’clock. Best known here something contained within the Bear, that being the asterism...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 13, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:03 AM Sunset: 6:10 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 7 minutes The third in a series of early season snowfalls took place on this date in 1836, bringing snow all the way down into the valleys after the first two just dusted the mountains. Residents of...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: When Columbus landed in the Bahamas on this date in 1492, he used the North Star to determine his location. However, he mistakenly used the star Alderamin in Cepheus, and thought he landed near what is now Boston. Either tropical breezes, or an able assistant,...
