by FLEK Admin | Mar 10, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Scorpion is making his usual predawn appearance as winter enters its final weeks. From 2:30 to 5:30 AM EDT, this “S”-shaped constellation climbs into the southeast, with its red star Antares due south at 6:00 AM, with its head and claws to the...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 9, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:13 AM Sunset: 6:49 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 36 minutes For those who have had enough of winter, or perhaps enough of this sort of winter, today is the day you’ve been waiting for. March 9th marks the end of the 91 coldest days of the year on...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Daylight Saving Time begins today, as we move the clocks ahead one hour, making the sunrise and sunset an hour later. There is actually a connection to astronomy, as time used to be “local”, based on the Sun at noon. That changed in the 1800s, when...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 8, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:15 AM Sunset: 5:48 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 33 minutes In spite of a mild winter, severe winter cold made its brief and only visit on this date in 1913. Temperatures fell to -23 in St. Johnsbury, and -36 in Bloomfield, the coldest March...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: This evening Venus again emerges near the western horizon, but unlike last week’s conjunction with the Moon, this evening Venus joins Mercury, reaching its greatest separation from the Sun, placing it at its best for viewing. Mercury’s bright spark...
