by FLEK Admin | Jan 17, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 4:40 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 19 minutes Over 200 years ago on this date, in 1817, snow with thunder fell, the static electricity creating a most unusual effect. In Williamstown, VT St. Elmo’s fire (a glowing discharge of static...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 16, 2024 | NightSky
Today: While Orion’s Belt stands out as it rises higher into the southeast during the evenings, more impressive might be the stars themselves. Each of these stars is a stellar powerhouse, the two outer stars more than 100 thousand times brighter than our Sun,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 16, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:22 AM Sunset: 4:39 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 17 minutes Dusting off some of the older record books on this date in 1831, a heavy coastal storm produced 8 to 10 inches of snow in Keene, NH with much blowing and drifting. The snow was heaviest from...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 15, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The brilliant bluish-white star Vega, appearing one quarter of the way above the northwest horizon as darkness settled in by 5:30 PM, does an interesting thing for the next month or so. It will set tonight about 8:15 PM far to the north. But it will rise again...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 15, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:37 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 14 minutes A special anniversary today for meteorology, but also photography, and even the realm of art, for it was on this date in 1885 that Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley took his first photo-micrograph of...
