by FLEK Admin | Aug 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Flanked to its right by Spica, a slender, waxing Crescent Moon slides low above the southwestern horizon this evening, with the tips of its horns nearly vertical. This gives the appearance that the Moon cannot “hold water”, and therefore gives us...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 26, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:06 AM Sunset: 7:37 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 31 minutes Sweltering heat waves were becoming a common thing across Vermont in the 1940s, in part because of global temperature rises, and in part due to the lack of forest cover at the time. On this...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At around 8:30 this evening, Mars and Spica again hover above the horizon in the west-southwest. But this time they cradle the Crescent Moon between them. The Moon will be the first to set, at 8:52 PM, Mars doing so immediately thereafter, and Spica dropping...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 25, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:05 AM Sunset: 7:39 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 34 minutes Late August is the time that colder locations expect to see their first taste of frost. Such was the case on this date in 1987, when thermometer dropped to record levels in a few places....
by FLEK Admin | Aug 25, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The dark, moonless evenings feature the brightest section of the Milky Way due south near 10:00 PM. We are viewing into the heart of our galaxy, where the density of stars is estimated to be up to one million times more dense than our skies, 25 thousand light...
