by FLEK Admin | Mar 31, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Is March going out like a lion? Leo the Lion continues to climb higher in the March evening skies. Its brightest star – Regulus – is more than half way above the southeast horizon at 8:30 PM EDT. Looking above and left of Regulus, the stars form a curve like...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 30, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:35 AM Sunset: 7:15 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 40 minutes March of 1977 was a big turn around from a very cold and snowy winter. Several record highs were set earlier in the month, but the 30th capped off the warm weather with readings of 78 degrees...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The line of Orion’s Belt stars, extended to the right, points to the red star Aldebaran, the red eye of Taurus, the Bull. Aldebaran is 9th brightest star we can see, relatively nearby at a distance of 65 light years. It is a Red Giant star, more than 40 times...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 29, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:37 AM Sunset: 7:14 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 37 minutes Warm weather always seems welcomed this time of year. However, on this date in 1946, the first spring back for so many men from World War II, the warm weather made for a very poor sugaring...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At 9 o’clock this evening, due south and two-thirds above the southern horizon, a tiny patch of starlight sits between the stars called the Twins of Gemini toward the south-southwest, and the bluish-white star marking the heart of Leo the Lion, Regulus....
