by FLEK Admin | Sep 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The waxing Crescent Moon has progressed farther left from its companion last night in Scorpio, the red star Antares, low but visible in the south-southwest near 7:30 PM. Well to Antares’ right, look for the moderately bright star, Zubenelgenubi, whose...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 28, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:44 AM Sunset: 6:37 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 53 minutes It was on this date in 1836 that snow was noted on the tops of the mountains of extreme southern Vermont. The temperature in the valley at Bennington registered 34, while an observer in...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: In this evening’s twilight a relatively flat horizon will be needed in the southwest. It is here that the Crescent Moon will dip to the horizon, doing so in lockstep with constellation Scorpio. As night falls, Antares, “The Heart of the Scorpion,” will appear...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 27, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:43 AM Sunset: 6:38 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 55 minutes On this date in 1947 much of the northeast shivered with the coldest weather so early in the season. In the normally mild Champlain Valley, Burlington was a record 27, St. Johnsbury falling to...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Even with calendar Summer now behind us, the constellation Orion barely broaches the eastern horizon by 11:00 PM. But within a month this will happen two hours earlier, as Orion re-emerges to become a central constellation in the Winter sky, and by the first of...
