by FLEK Admin | Apr 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The brilliant star in the southwest to the left of Orion’s belt is Sirius, the Dog Star. As it lowers closer to the horizon, notice that as it twinkles, it flashes many colors. Its light is bending on its way through our atmosphere, giving us pin-point...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 13, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:10 AM Sunset: 7:32 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 22 minutes An unprecedented early spring was underway on this date in 1945. Warm weather in March had already done in the sugaring season. Temperatures climbed into the 80s for several days, including 84...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: While the Moon, just one day past Full, continues to bathe the skies with moonlight, the western skies play host to several bright objects capable of competing with the lunar glow. As the last twilight fades, Jupiter is due west, one third of the way above the...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 12, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:12 AM Sunset: 7:31 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 19 minutes Wet snow fell heavily over the north and the mountains on this date in 1992. 8 inches was measured in Newport, 6 in St. Albans, and 4 inches in Burlington. Guildhall, VT and Colebrook, NH had...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: This evening, almost exactly as the Sun sets, the Full “Pink” Moon rises in the east. The Moon is perfectly Full less than an hour later, at 8:22 PM, at which point you migh glimpse the steely-blue star Spica, just barely to the Moon’s upper...
