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...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 7, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:55 AM Sunset: 6:20 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 25 minutes New England is hardly the place we think a lot about earthquakes, though we get a pretty good jolt now and then. The majority of our quakes are known as mid-plate quakes, resulting from...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon reaches Full tonight, and being the Full Moon closest to the Equinox, it is called the Full “Harvest” Moon. Its name likely extends back before written accounts, related to the time of year, but also the fact that this Full Moon rises close to the same...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 6, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:54 AM Sunset: 6:22 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 28 minutes On this date in 1836, a cold weather pattern had settled into the northeast. The second of three early snows fell, focused mostly on southern New York and northern Pennsylvania where up to 26...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 5, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Nearly full, the Moon will rise due east at around 5:40 this evening, able to muscle its way through the sun’s glare. By 7 o’clock, the sun’s glare nearly gone, Saturn will emerge and become visible just below the Moon. This is the closest the...
