Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Today: High in the east-southeast at 10:30 are three bright stars which make up the Summer Triangle. The highest and brightest is Vega, lower and to the left is Deneb, and lowest and more toward the south is Altair. Altair comes from an Arabic word meaning the “flying...

July 15, 2025

Sunrise: 5:21 AM Sunset: 8:32 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 11 minutes It is St. Swithin’s Day – whom some have coined as the Patron Saint of weather people due to the weather saying associated with him – “If it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will...

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Today: Once the moon has fully risen by 11:20 PM, you needn’t wait long to see its celestial companion for the night, This time it is the planet Saturn, which will appear barely below the moon by 11:45, perhaps a few minutes earlier, assuming a flat horizon and...

July 14, 2025

Sunrise: 5:20 AM Sunset: 8:32 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 12 minutes Blistering heat was the story on this date, thirty years ago, in 1995. Following a very hot June, July topped that performance. The high temperatures reached the upper 90s to near 100,...

Monday, July 14, 2025

Today: The southern end of the Milky Way hosts a rich variety types of objects because it is the center of our galaxy, though binoculars or telescopes are needed. Looking at the red star Antares, due south at 9:45 PM, ordinary binoculars will show a fuzzy object...