by FLEK Admin | Oct 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s waning gibbous moon is still nearly full, so its glare largely overwhelms the Pleiades, which appears along the lower left edge of the Moon. The Pleiades will probably require binoculars for all but the most eagle-eyed, in order to be visible. A...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 9, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:58 AM Sunset: 6:17 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 19 minutes Severe flooding swept through southeast Vermont and western New Hampshire, killing several people on this date in 2005. Rainfall amounts of 6 to 11 inches, the remnants of Tropical Storm...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 8, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:56 AM Sunset: 6:18 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 22 minutes A most unusual late-season surge of summer-time warmth was just beginning on this date in 1909. Readings climbed to the upper 70s and low 80s, heading for their peak on the 10th, when...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Draconid Meteor Shower peaks this evening, although the bright, nearly Full Moon, hampers our view of this minor meteor shower, most years producing fewer than 10 per hour. Occasional bursts hundreds per hour have occurred when their parent comet,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The bright, bluish-white star Vega is due west and very high at 8:30 PM EDT. Vega is one of the nearer stars to us, at a distance of 26 light years. This young star is tinted blue because it is very hot, converting its hydrogen to helium at a much faster rate...
