Saturday, March 01, 2025

Today: Venus has started its decent toward the horizon from its peak last month. Even so, it is well placed for a delightful conjunction with the slender waxing Crescent Moon in the western twilight this evening. They emerge between 5:45 and 6:00 PM, when Venus shines...

Saturday, March 01, 2025

Today: Venus has started its decent toward the horizon from its peak last month. Even so, it is well placed for a delightful conjunction with the slender waxing Crescent Moon in the western twilight this evening. They emerge between 5:45 and 6:00 PM, when Venus shines...

February 28, 2025

Sunrise: 6:29 AM Sunset: 5:37 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 8 minutes Temperatures plunged to record levels on this date in 1920, reaching -17 in Burlington, and -30 in St. Johnsbury. It was a fitting finish to a fitful February, starting with record cold on the...

Friday, February 28, 2025

Today: Tonight’s New Moon will facilitate the detection the most distant object human eyes can see, the Andromeda galaxy, a faint smudge of light, one half of the way above the west-northwest horizon, as twilight ends after 6:40 PM. It appears at the hip of the...

February 27, 2025

Sunrise: 6:31 AM Sunset: 5:36 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 5 minutes Have February’s been getting snowier? Many locations have seen their snowiest February either in 2007, 2008, or 2011, and across southern portions of VT and NH in 2015, with monthly...