by FLEK Admin | Jan 14, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Tomorrow or Tuesday morning offer your best, last views of Mercury, as it starts to lower back into the Sun’s glare, best viewed from 6:25 to 6:40 AM, low in the southeast. Mercury’s swifter orbit takes it around and behind the Sun, though it...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 14, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:36 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 13 minutes A January thaw in 1934 ended on this date with a monstrous snowstorm, which turns out to be the fifth greatest snowfall in a 24 hour period for Burlington, VT. 24.2 inches piled up, and was...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 13, 2024 | NightSky
Today: This evening hosts a thin, waxing Crescent Moon well below Saturn in the southwest, lowering toward the horizon as twilight yields to the dark, mid-winter skies. The Moon sets before 7 o’clock, and Saturn about an hour later. Look for a slightly larger...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 13, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:24 AM Sunset: 4:35 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 11 minutes It was on this date in 1968, that the longest deep freeze on modern record began to let up. Many communities in northern New England and NY, and across southern Quebec went above zero for the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 12, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Near the top of the sky, slightly south in the evenings at 8:00 PM, a group of stars called the Seven Sisters can be found, though seeing them requires a little trick. Look slightly away from them and they will appear brighter – your eye is designed to be...
