by FLEK Admin | Jul 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the sun sets just before 8 PM, the Waxing Crescent Moon will be due west. By 10 PM, the twilight should be dim enough for the star Regulus to be visible just below and right of The Moon. Looking back toward the west and southwest, The Moon and Regulus align...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 25, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:30 AM Sunset: 8:23 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 53 minutes Torrential downpours from thunderstorms focused on the Ottauquechee Valley on this date in 1859. Flooding was reported to be the highest since 1811 according to a Woodstock newspaper. The next...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 25, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As twilight now falls just a little earlier than the beginning of the month, you’ll find the skies dark enough to catch a view of the bluish-white star Spica, low in the southwest. Spica, translated as a “spike of wheat”, sits on the hips of...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 24, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:29 AM Sunset: 8:24 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 55 minutes Searching back through the records books to 1830, tremendous rains from the 24th through the 26th produced one of Vermont’s most dramatic flood events. Zadock Thompson’s records from that time...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 24, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s New Moon means there’s no moonlight in the south to sully the view of the red star Antares, the star appearing about a third of the way up in the south, by 9:30. If you look much higher and to the southwest, Arcturus appears; also much...
