by FLEK Admin | Feb 29, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Leap Day, occurring once every four years, keeps our calendar in sync with the seasons and the Sun. Our 365 and one quarter day orbit leaves a quarter day extra each year, adding up to the extra day on our calendars every four years. The Egyptians figured this...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 28, 2024 | NightSky
by FLEK Admin | Feb 28, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:29 AM Sunset: 5:37 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 8 minutes Temperatures plunged to record levels on this date in 1920, reaching -17 in Burlington, and -30 in St. Johnsbury. It was a fitting finish to a fitful February, starting with record cold on the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 28, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Saturn experiences its conjunction with the Sun, passing directly behind the Sun from our viewpoint, which happens every 378 days, just slightly longer than one year. The difference comes from Saturn’s very slow orbit of 29 and a half years, causing it to...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 27, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:31 AM Sunset: 5:36 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 5 minutes Have February’s been getting snowier? Many locations have seen their snowiest February either in 2007, 2008, or 2011, and across southern portions of VT and NH in 2015, 40 to 50 inches....
