by FLEK Admin | Jun 10, 2025 | NightSky
Today: While the nearly Full Moon bathes the night in moonlight from its path, very low over the southern horizon, look in the opposite direction, toward the north, for a curious object, even closer to the horizon. The star Capella, among the brightest stellar...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 9, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:07 AM Sunset: 8:33 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 26 minutes The summer of 1933, famous for the beginnings of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains, was also hot and dry locally. On this date a heat wave was underway, topping out at 96 degrees in Cornwall,...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Having moved on from Spica a few days before, the Moon is now nearly full, and is nearing Antares, a bright red star that will appear to the left, a slight below the brilliant Moon. Known as the heart of its surrounding constellation, Scorpius, Antares appears...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 8, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:07 AM Sunset: 8:32 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 25 minutes On this date in 1903, the first rain in nearly 9 weeks fell, continuing for 4 days with about an inch of total rainfall. In many locations, including Burlington, no rain fell at all in the...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: This evening finds the Waxing Gibbous Moon trying to tip the scales of Libra. Looking on from the southeast is the red star Antares, within the constellation Scorpius. The two leftmost stars within Libra were once considered part neighboring Scorpius:...
