by FLEK Admin | Nov 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The eastern skies have gone to the dogs! Procyon, the star marking the Little Dog, is one of Orion’s hunting dogs, and rises at 9:30 PM. But the Great Dog comes into view a bit more than a half-hour later, as the star Sirius – the “Dog...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 15, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:46 AM Sunset: 4:23 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 37 minutes The cold winter of 1933 and ’34 experienced the first of many arctic intrusions on this date in 1933. The coldest air so early in the season dropped thermometers to 9 in Burlington, only...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At 5:30 AM tomorrow, early risers can see the Crescent Moon about a third of the way up in the southeast. Low in the east-southeast is the bright blue star Spica. If you connect an imaginary line between Spica and Moon, and then follow it high in the sky, it...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 14, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:45 AM Sunset: 4:24 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 39 minutes On this date in 2003, a soaking rain on the night of the 13th changed to snow, continuing into the 14th. Valleys saw a light coating, but strengthening winds behind the storm lifted moist air...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At 7:50 PM you can see a faint cluster of stars called The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, appearing a little less than halfway up in the east. To locate them more easily, you can first identify the bright and orange-red star Aldebaran, which appears due east, and...
