by FLEK Admin | Oct 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The delay in the sunrise until after 7 o’clock means you don’t have to get up quite so early to enjoy an eye-catching display of the very slender waning Crescent Moon to the right of the brilliant Venus, rising just before 6 o’clock, and...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 17, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:08 AM Sunset: 6:03 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 55 minutes “Early winter is surely winter” as the old adage goes. A British-led Mohawk raiding party attacked Royalton, VT on this date in 1780, with mid-winter conditions, including 8 inches...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Cresting due south this evening at 11 o’clock, Saturn is easy to locate, about half way up. Then, turn your gaze lower, more to the right of due south, where a rather bright, but rarely noticed star makes its best evening appearance of the year. Known to...
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 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....
