by FLEK Admin | Apr 22, 2025 | NightSky
Today: For reasons that scientists don’t yet understand, the aurora borealis, or “northern lights” are seen more frequently in April. The Sun, unusually quiet over the past few years, now shows a significant increase in sunspots and other solar activity, improving our...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 21, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:57 AM Sunset: 7:42 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 45 minutes Spring appeared to be well underway on this date, in 1993. Temperatures reached the 60s in most places just ahead of a cold front. By evening, rain had turned to snow in the Adirondacks. While...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight comes the expected peak of the Lyrid Meteor Shower. Look to the northeast around 10 PM. To the right of the bright star Vega, the Lyrids will be concentrated between the constellations Lyra and Hercules, and will lift high in the eastern sky. An average...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:58 AM Sunset: 7:41 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 43 minutes Spring is obviously not a smooth progression forward, but is fraught with set backs, such as the heavy, wet snowstorm that hit on this date in 1953. Most lower elevations experienced a cold...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The steely blue star rising in the north-northeast, low but due northeast at 9:45 PM, is Vega, from the German “Wega”, and from the Arabic “Al Wika”, the “swooping or diving eagle”. In modern times it is the brightest star in...
