by FLEK Admin | Oct 16, 2025 | NightSky
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....
by FLEK Admin | Oct 16, 2025 | SunRiseSet
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...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 15, 2025 | NightSky
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...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 15, 2025 | SunRiseSet
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...
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...
