by FLEK Admin | Mar 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: By 2:30 AM, early Saturday morning, a waning Gibbous Moon climbs into the southeast, and will spend the rest of the night chasing the red star Antares, the “heart” of the Scorpion. The pair slides low through the southern skies, cresting due south...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 20, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:53 AM Sunset: 7:03 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 10 minutes Like something out of modern-day politics, the election of Thomas Jefferson in March 1801, the first change in party leadership in the U.S., became a scapegoat, blaming Jefferson for the...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Vernal or Spring Equinox marks the calendar arrival of Spring early this morning at 5:01 AM EDT, when the Sun is positioned directly above the Earth’s equator. Although the word equinox means “equal night”, the atmosphere bends the...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 19, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:55 AM Sunset: 7:01 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 6 minutes The second of two heavy rains fell on this date in 1936, resulting in the worst all-New England flooding on record. The combination of rainfall of 3 to 6 inches, and melting of a water-laden...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Very high in the west-northwest, emerging from the fading twilight near 7:45 PM, sparkles the brilliant star Capella, the fourth brightest star that we can see. What we can’t see is that it is actually a pair of bright, giant stars, each more than twice...
