by FLEK Admin | Mar 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Vernal or Spring Equinox marks the calendar arrival of Spring early this morning at 5:01 AM EDT, when the Sun is positioned directly above the Earth’s equator. Although the word equinox means “equal night”, the atmosphere bends the...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 19, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:55 AM Sunset: 7:01 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 6 minutes The second of two heavy rains fell on this date in 1936, resulting in the worst all-New England flooding on record. The combination of rainfall of 3 to 6 inches, and melting of a water-laden...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Very high in the west-northwest, emerging from the fading twilight near 7:45 PM, sparkles the brilliant star Capella, the fourth brightest star that we can see. What we can’t see is that it is actually a pair of bright, giant stars, each more than twice...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 18, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:57 AM Sunset: 7:00 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 3 minutes More than a half century ago on this date, severe cold gripped the region in 1967, following a fresh snowfall of 3 to 6 inches. The coldest readings so late in the season were recorded in St....
by FLEK Admin | Mar 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: In March, the Milky Way is still fairly high across the western sky in the evening, running from the south, just above the bright star Sirius, then high in the west above Orion and Taurus, the Bull, then to the right of the bright star Capella, finally settling...
