by FLEK Admin | Mar 18, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:57 AM Sunset: 7:00 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 3 minutes More than a half century ago on this date, severe cold gripped the region in 1967, following a fresh snowfall of 3 to 6 inches. The coldest readings so late in the season were recorded in St....
by FLEK Admin | Mar 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: In March, the Milky Way is still fairly high across the western sky in the evening, running from the south, just above the bright star Sirius, then high in the west above Orion and Taurus, the Bull, then to the right of the bright star Capella, finally settling...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 17, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:59 AM Sunset: 6:59 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 0 minutes It is St. Patrick’s Day, and not the weather, that usually brings green to our part of the world. In an average year snow cover is now gone from the Champlain Valley and the lower...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Leo the Lion climbs higher into the evening skies, with its bright star, Regulus, the “heart” of Leo, nearly half way up in the east-southeast by 8:30 PM. Regulus appears to be younger than it really is. Astronomers discovered that a companion dwarf...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 16, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 6:58 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 57 minutes Although some years winter still has the upper hand, on this date in 1990, spring was well underway. Muddy roads and rapidly melting snow were under foot, while the sunny skies sent...
