by FLEK Admin | May 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: One of the summer’s brightest stars, Antares, crests due south near 12:50 AM, marking the “heart” of the Scorpion, but also leading the Milky Way back up into the eastern skies. Look to the left of Antares, where the band of faint light...
by FLEK Admin | May 27, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:13 AM Sunset: 8:23 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 10 minutes One of the coldest Mays of the 20th century was capped off by a snowy northeaster in 1967. Residents of northern New England were waking up to a dusting to an inch in southern Vermont,...
by FLEK Admin | May 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the Moon reaches its New phase, permitting dark evening skies, it’s a good time to locate the famous but rather faint constellation, Hercules. Looking due east near 11:00 PM, and on a line between Arcturus high in the southeast and Vega in the east,...
by FLEK Admin | May 26, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:13 AM Sunset: 8:22 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 9 minutes Fourteen years ago, in 2011, a series of moisture-laden thunderstorms tracking northeast along the Rt. 2 corridor from Barre northeast to St. Johnsbury, unleashed 4 to 7 inches of rain in six...
by FLEK Admin | May 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Between the brightest star in the skies this evening, Arcturus, high in the south at 10:30 PM, and the second brightest, Vega, slightly lower in the east, the faint stars of Hercules offer a challenge to view. Many people look for the bowtie pattern, one third...
