by FLEK Admin | Oct 21, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The Orionid Meteor Shower reaches its peak tonight, best seen in the hours after midnight. The fragments of rock are part of debris released by Halley’s Comet, producing some 10 to 20 meteors per hour. A First Quarter Moon settles toward the horizon,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 21, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:13 AM Sunset: 5:56 PM Length of the day: 10 hours 1 minutes Just over 50 years ago on this date, in 1972, bitter cold covered smaller ponds with ice. On the 19th an early season northeaster clipped southern New England with 2 to 4 inches of snow on the...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 20, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The planet Mercury slides behind the Sun today, nothing that we can observe, but it shifts Mercury into the evening skies by next month. Unfortunately, the Earth’s tilted axis keeps it too low for viewing. After another orbit, Mercury makes a much better...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 20, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:12 AM Sunset: 5:58 PM Length of the day: 10 hours 1 minutes Rain began falling on this date in 1996, and would continue for about 30 hours as a coastal storm tapped moisture from Hurricane Lily and dumped tremendous rains over the region. 2 to 4 inches was...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 19, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Guess who’s rising at midnight, about one hour before the waning Moon returns to the skies? The Winter champion Orion lifts into the east and southeast for night owls, tracking to due south near 4:30 tomorrow morning, and then heads into the southwest...
