by FLEK Admin | Apr 11, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The waxing Gibbous Moon is just one day from being Full, known is April as the “Pink” Moon. This is a great time to see one of the Moon’s prominent craters, Tycho. Binoculars show it near the bottom as a hub for a series of lines radiating...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 10, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:15 AM Sunset: 7:29 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 14 minutes 80 years ago, March of 1945 was the warmest on record up until that time. Not surprisingly, poor sugaring was noted. And on this date in 1945 the warmth extended into the month of April....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 10, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The planet Mars is obviously on the move, sliding to a position exactly even with the Twin stars of Gemini this evening, high in the southwest, forming a curious “belt” of three stars in a row, mimicing the more famous Orion’s Belt, which...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 9, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:17 AM Sunset: 7:27 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 10 minutes Spring has usually made some type of appearance by now, but “April brings along what March left behind” as the old adage goes. For example, on this date in 1956, the snow was still piling up...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the bright winter stars of Orion retire in the west, two lonely bright stars rise toward their summer prominence in the skies in the east. Looking high in the northeast to find the Big Dipper, and follow the “arc” of its handle lower and to the right,...
