by FLEK Admin | Jun 24, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today is St. John’s Day – Midsummer’s Day in ancient traditions. One of the features of the summer skies is a trio of bright stars known as the Summer Triangle. Look in the east after 10 o’clock, where the brightest and highest of the three stars, Vega,...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 23, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:07 AM Sunset: 8:38 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 31 minutes One of the most severe outbreaks of weather in Vermont and New Hampshire roared across the region on this date in 1782. An undetermined number of tornadoes swept from southwest to northeast,...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 23, 2025 | NightSky
Today: With Summer now officially underway, look for Leo the Lion, lowering into the west as he takes his curtain call for the season. His bright star, Regulus, due west at 10 o’clock, was associated with the Summer Solstice over 5000 years ago, when the Sun...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 22, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:07 AM Sunset: 8:38 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 31 minutes A tremendous hailstorm occurred on this date in 1906. Following some frosty weather 10 days before, thunderstorms in Chelsea, VT produced a swath of hail about 1 mile wide and 10 miles long....
by FLEK Admin | Jun 22, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers tomorrow will find an even thinner Crescent Moon joining Venus, well to the left of the planetary beacon, but also just left of the returning collection of stars known as the Seven Sisters. They will be quite low at 3:45 AM, just as the first hints...
