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...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: You can watch the waning Gibbous Moon lift into the east this evening just before 10 o’clock, led by a fairly bright, bluish-white star called Spica, the only bright star in Virgo. Through the night they progress higher through the southeast, cresting due...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 15, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:03 AM Sunset: 6:56 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 53 minutes Beware the Ides of March…not some astrological prediction or vision of fate. Instead, we are on the cusp of the season of spring – a season capable of just about anything! On this...
