by FLEK Admin | Mar 3, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Looking directly below Venus on the next clear evening, try to find as low and level a view to the west as possible. Bright but low appears the swift, elusive planet Mercury. The Sun’s nearest planet will climb higher through the 8th, when it makes its...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 2, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:26 AM Sunset: 5:40 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 14 minutes On this date in 1900 the last flakes of one of late-winter’s masterpieces were trickling down after depositing record-breaking snow from the Great Plains to New England. Locally 21...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Orion is an easy target, even on a moonlit night. Tonight, the lack of moonlight might give you an opportunity to see a fainter feature of our winter Giant. Look below his three belt stars, where a fainter line marks his sword. The very end of the sword is a...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Orion is an easy target, even on a moonlit night. Tonight, the lack of moonlight might give you an opportunity to see a fainter feature of our winter Giant. Look below his three belt stars, where a fainter line marks his sword. The very end of the sword is a...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 1, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:27 AM Sunset: 5:38 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 11 minutes The third of three heavy snowfalls occurred on this date in 1804. Yale University President John Day, likely relying on press reports, noted 4 to 6 feet of snow on the ground throughout New...
