by FLEK Admin | Jan 8, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Mercury continues its early morning display for early risers tomorrow morning. As you enjoy your first cup of coffee, Mercury shines low but bright above a low, level southeast horizon from 6:15 through 6:40 AM, not to be confused with the much brighter, much...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 8, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:25 AM Sunset: 4:29 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 4 minutes Over a quarter century ago, Vermont’s most severe ice storm in history was underway on this date, in 1998. By the time it was over, 2 to 5 inches of ice throughout the Champlain Valley,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 7, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The thinning Crescent Moon again joins Venus and the red star Antares, but this time appears just to the right of the red star from 5:45 until 6:30, when the twilight overwhelms the scene. To their lower left, even closer to the horizon, the planet Mercury...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 7, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:25 AM Sunset: 4:28 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 3 minutes Some January thaws feature a gentle breeze and pleasant spells of sunshine, as was the case on this date in 1936, thermometers reaching the 50s. But on this same date in 1841, the Connecticut...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 6, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Early risers tomorrow will enjoy the combination of a waning Crescent Moon edging up into the southeast, greeting a preview of summer in the depths of winter. Well to the Moon’s left, the planet Venus beams above the red star Antares, the “heart” of the...
