by FLEK Admin | May 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A very large diamond of bright objects should get your attention in the west on the next clear evening. Lowest, though quite bright as twilight fades after 9 o’clock, Orion’s shoulder star Betelgeuse is due west, flanked to the upper right by the...
by FLEK Admin | May 6, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:34 AM Sunset: 8:00 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 26 minutes Fourteen years ago on this date, 2011, tremendous snow melt and spring rains pushed Lake Champlain to its highest level since records began in the 1820s. The lake was 3.27 feet above flood...
by FLEK Admin | May 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Eta Aquariid meteor shower continues tonight, with modest interference from the Moon. Best seen after midnight, with up to 15 meteors or “shooting stars” per hour, you’ll find much darker skies after the Moon sets near 3:30 AM. These...
by FLEK Admin | May 5, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:36 AM Sunset: 7:59 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 23 minutes A late season nor’easter was finishing up on this date, over 200 years ago in 1812. Rain changed to snow as far south as Philadelphia, while the higher elevations in southern Vermont...
by FLEK Admin | May 5, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon, now a waxing gibbous, has reached Leo, and is abreast of Regulus, the star that mark’s Leos breast plate, and which is also the constellation’s brightest. The Moon’s next close encounter with a bright star will be when it cozies up next to Spica, in...
