by FLEK Admin | Feb 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: With a view to the southeast at 6:30 PM, you can see the constellation Canis Major, the Big Dog, facing upward toward Orion. Well above and left of Orion will appear the Waxing Gibbous Moon making its way from Jupiter a few nights ago, to a rendezvous with the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 7, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 5:08 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 7 minutes One of New England’s greatest snowstorms brought eastern and southern New England 20 to 40 inches of snow, whipped into drifts of 5 to 10 feet, in the cold and snowy winter of 1978. In...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Orion boasts a fine collection of bright stars, including the bluish-white beacon to the lower right of his three belt stars. Rigel, meaning “left foot”, is classified as a blue supergiant, estimated to be 860 light years, and emitting approximately 200...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 6, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:02 AM Sunset: 5:07 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 5 minutes On this date in 1855 severe cold was gripping the region. In Randolph, VT on the 6th the temperature ranged from -25 to a high of -18, while Hanover, NH had a mean temperature of 19 degrees...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Jupiter’s pairing with the waxing Gibbous Moon this evening, cresting high in the south near 7:10 PM, brings up some interesting details about Jupiter and its own moon. Jupiter hosts an astounding 95 moons by last count, most of which were named for...
