by FLEK Admin | Feb 22, 2024 | NightSky
Today: George Washington’s actual birthday (not the holiday) would have seen the same stars in the same places, though the planets would have been different. Thanks to modern computer calculations, we know that Venus and Saturn were amazingly close in the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 21, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:41 AM Sunset: 5:28 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 47 minutes The longest siege of arctic weather on modern records finally ended on this date in 1979. West Burke and Enosburg Falls recorded 18 straight mornings of below zero temperatures, dropping as...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 21, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Venus struggles to remain in view for the morning coffee crew, but tomorrow morning it would be worth taking one last look. You might use binoculars, or a spotting scope to find Mars, just to the lower right of Venus, during a narrow window from 6 o’clock...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 20, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:42 AM Sunset: 5:26 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 44 minutes February of 1934 is the coldest February, and the second coldest month on record. Cold weather is most often dry, however on this date in 1934, the only significant snowfall of the month...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 20, 2024 | NightSky
Today: A growing, bright waxing Gibbous Moon starts the evening about halfway up in the east, climbing even higher through the darkening evening skies. With the darkness, a pair of stars are revealed to be the Moon’s companions tonight, the Twins of Gemini. Just...
