by FLEK Admin | Feb 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Milky Way is showing off in the dark, moonless evening skies, arching from southeast and into the south, climbing above Orion and nearly overhead. It then shimmers down toward the northwestern horizon. During March, the Milky Way, and Orion, ease lower into...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 26, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:32 AM Sunset: 5:34 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 2 minutes A storm from the 26th to the 27th in 1869 marked the third big dumping of snow of a very snowy month. By month’s end Randolph, VT reported 37.5 inches, and Woodstock, VT totaled 40...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Looking due east at 6:25 this evening, Leo the Lion begins to climb above the horizon, with the Twins of Gemini much higher. About halfway between them, search for a faint sprinkling of stars, called the “Beehive”, a swarm of stars in the faint constellation...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 25, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:34 AM Sunset: 5:33 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 59 minutes An interesting weather note is found in the records for this date in 1936. 3 inches of brown, dirty snow had fallen from the sky as noted in a St. Johnsbury diary, most likely due to dust...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 25, 2025 | NightSky
Today: By 8:30 PM this evening, the “twin” stars of Gemini appear quite high in the south-southeast, two-thirds of the way up from the horizon, and ride very high across the southern skies. Pollux, a bit brighter and on the lower left, and Castor, on the...
