by FLEK Admin | Aug 31, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers this month have enjoyed an excellent display from Venus and Jupiter, but let’s give a nod to the “other” morning planet, the alwayss challenging Mercury, making a modest appearance within the morning twilight. Having as low and...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 30, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:11 AM Sunset: 7:30 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 19 minutes On this date in 1965 a tremendous early season cold spell was underway. Blustery northwest winds brought cold air to the mountains first, with a dusting of snow on Mt. Mansfield, and 2.5...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon’s cycle of 29 and a half days, being less than a calendar month, ends this month as it began. Having cycled back to its first quarter phase, it is half illuminated, and appears in the south-southwest at darkness falls. It has also circled back into the...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Saturn is now rising near the end of twilight, at 8:30 in the east, and slides higher into the east-southeast, one quarter of the way into the heavens by 10:30. Saturn’s great distance means it takes decades to orbit the Sun, which means we see it in...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 29, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:10 AM Sunset: 7:32 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 22 minutes The second of three tropical weather systems was sweeping across the region on this date in 1893. Taking a track from Lake Ontario to Montreal to northern Maine, the passage of the storm to...
