by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Not only is Orion lowering into the west more and more with each passing evening, but the Milky Way is also dropping nearer the horizon. Its faint light makes it difficult to see near the horizon through the thicker part of the atmosphere, and it will remain...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 18, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:02 AM Sunset: 7:38 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 36 minutes Almost 30 years ago, April of 1996 was a very snowy one across the higher elevations of New York and northern New England. On this date Peru, VT watched another seven inches of snow pile up,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Night owls can see the waning gibbous moon rise just about due southeast at 1:45 AM. As the moon then travels low in the southern sky, it will be well centered within the constellation Sagittarius, and within that part of Sagittarius know as the Teapot. The...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 17, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:03 AM Sunset: 7:37 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 34 minutes An interesting weather week was finishing up on this date in 1976. It started with an inch or two of snow on Monday. But by the 17th a heat wave that developed in the middle of the country...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The northwestern skies in the evenings are home to Capella, the Goat Star. In mythology this is the nurse goat for the great Jupiter, and was rewarded with a place in the heavens. It is half way up from the horizon in the west-northwest at 9:15 PM, well below...
