by FLEK Admin | Nov 1, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:27 AM Sunset: 5:40 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 13 minutes The first day of November greets us with the half-way point between fall and winter. The ancient peoples of western Europe knew this as Samhain – meaning literally “summer’s end”, but...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today marks the latest sunrise of the year. But wait, doesn’t that happen in December near the Winter Solstice? That would be true, except the date for changing from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time now occurs so late, that our sunrise is two minutes...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 31, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:26 AM Sunset: 5:41 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 15 minutes Halloween is often haunted by memories of trick-or-treating in the snow, or in the cold, but before the days of various miniature cherubs dressed as their favorite hero or greatest nightmare,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 31, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Hallowe’en’s connection to astronomy comes from its position on the calendar, halfway between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice. This mid-point, known as a “cross-quarter day”, began the “dark” half of the year for...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 30, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:25 AM Sunset: 5:43 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 18 minutes Over a decade on this date, in 2011, the greatest October snowstorm on record was tapering off. Only a dusting fell in the Champlain Valley, but 8 to 16 inches fell in southern VT, including...
