by FLEK Admin | Jul 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The second brightest star in the summer sky, Vega, appears nearly overhead at midnight. From the zenith, lower your focus into the east, still quite high, where another bright star catches your attention, Deneb, highlighting the tail feathers of the...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 8, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:15 AM Sunset: 8:36 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 21 minutes Early residents of the region were shocked by waking up to frost on this date in 1816, the infamous Year Without a Summer! Following snow in early June, summer weather returned, with a heat...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight near midnight, the bluish-white star Vega is nearly overhead, while the brilliant pale-orange Arcturus is about half way up from the horizon in the west. Between them, about two thirds of the way from Arcturus up to Vega, a bow-tie shaped pattern of...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 7, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:14 AM Sunset: 8:36 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 22 minutes Heavy rains and localized severe flooding made the headlines on this date in 1984, when persistent thunderstorms during the night caused flash flooding near Williston, resulting in culvert...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today is the “seventh day of the seventh Moon” – moons being months – and is the traditional day for cultures in the Far East to celebrate the story of the Goddess of Weaving and the Handsome Farmer, more familiar to us as the Summer Triangle, directly overhead...
