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...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:00 AM Sunset: 7:40 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 40 minutes A rare April heat wave was climaxing on this date during the Bicentennial year of the United States, 1976. Thermometers reached mid-summer levels, including 90 degrees in Montpelier and St....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Not only is Orion lowering into the west more and more with each passing evening, but the Milky Way is also dropping nearer the horizon. Its faint light makes it difficult to see near the horizon through the thicker part of the atmosphere, and it will remain...
