by FLEK Admin | Aug 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Andromeda Galaxy is the only distant galaxy we can see with our own eyes. In the next few nights look in the northeast, just below the Milky Way, and about one third of the way up from the horizon near 9:15 PM EDT. It appears as a small, oval smudge of...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 16, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:55 AM Sunset: 7:54 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 59 minutes Bennington Battle Day is rather infamous for the role which weather played in an American victory. Heavy rains on this date inn 1777 delayed the beginning of the battle, which was enough time...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Just after 10:30 this evening, the Half Moon climbs into the east-northeast. As the Moon climbs higher in the hours after midnight, take note of the patch of faint stars struggling to be seen just above our celestial neighbor, known as the Seven Sisters, or the...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 15, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:54 AM Sunset: 7:55 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 1 minutes The second of three August heat waves was still going on this date in 1947. Temperatures remained above 70 degrees at night for three days in Burlington, while afternoons reached the mid 90s....
by FLEK Admin | Aug 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Perseid Meteor Shower continues this evening, again further from its peak, but the moon is dimming, now down to 59 percent illuminated. Meteors are almost always favored after midnight, because our spinning Earth turns into the direction we are orbiting....
