by FLEK Admin | Sep 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today is Autumnal Equinox. At 2:19 PM EDT, the sun crosses the equator, introducing Autumn to those of us in the northern hemisphere. The days will continue to shorten, but at an ever decreasing rate, until we reach the Winter Solstice at 10:03 AM EST, on...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Saturn will rise just south of east at around 7:30 this evening, in between Pisces and Aquarius. Tonight and tomorrow night, the Earth passes between the Sun and Saturn, an arrangement called opposition for Saturn. This places us as close to Saturn as we get,...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 20, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:35 AM Sunset: 6:51 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 16 minutes Tornadoes are rare enough here, but on this date in 1845, a tremendous tornado developed near Rochester, NY and churned east across the Adirondacks, finishing this trek as a water spout over...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: An unusual, and not-well-known phenomenon can be viewed by those up before the “crack of dawn, about 2 hours before sunrise, or about 4:30 AM. Looking east on a clear, moonless morning, a wedge of light, leaning its triangular shape to the upper right is...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 19, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:34 AM Sunset: 6:53 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 19 minutes General Martin Field, who compiled weather records over many years from Newfane, VT, noted on this date in 1827, heavy rains began, and when they let up on the 21st, 8 inches of rain had...
