Friday, September 19, 2025

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...

September 18, 2025

Sunrise: 6:33 AM Sunset: 6:55 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 22 minutes There are many notes of very smokey air throughout New England from the 10th to the 18th of September in 1908. Forest fires in Canada sent a great deal of smoke south on prevailing northwest...

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Today: Tomorrow morning, starting near 4:45, but best viewed from 5:15 to 5:45 AM, Leo the Lion will be rising in the east-northeast. Venus and the Crescent Moon will be closely clustered around the lion’s breastbone and brightest star, Regulus. The Moon will only...

September 17, 2025

Sunrise: 6:32 AM Sunset: 6:57 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 25 minutes After near record cold on September 13th, 1946, Burlington was starting a string of record highs on this date in 1946. Over the next four days, thermometers would reach 84, 87, 85, and 89...

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Today: At around 8:00 PM, the evening twilight will fade, showing Saturn to have risen in the east-southeast. Saturn will ride across the southern sky throughout the night, among the faint stars of Pisces and Aquarius, but a little closer to Pisces. Saturn’s...