by FLEK Admin | May 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the dusk fades at 8:30 PM, the Crescent Moon shines barely to the right of Castor, the rightmost of the Gemini Twins. Below and a little farther to the right, in the west-northwest, shines Jupiter, bounded by the horns of Taurus. Jupiter and the horns of...
by FLEK Admin | May 1, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:41 AM Sunset: 7:54 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 13 minutes Each May from 1812 to 1817 featured a snowstorm. On this date in 1812, the first in this series of cold, backwards Mays began with the following comments from the Rev. William Bentley of...
by FLEK Admin | May 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today is May Day, and is known in the Celtic tradition as Beltane, marking the traditional half-way point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. These mid-points of the seasons are called “cross-quarter days”, as they are exactly...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 30, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:43 AM Sunset: 7:53 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 10 minutes It is not unusual to see flooding this time of year as soggy ground and remaining snow in the mountains adds to the spring rain. However, fourteen years ago, in 2011, rapid snowmelt, combined...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Around 8:15 this evening, the waxing Crescent Moon emerges from the twilight, about one third of the way up in western sky. About this time, Jupiter comes into view, below it, a fine pairing that settles to about one quarter of the way up in the west-northwest...
