by FLEK Admin | Oct 19, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:10 AM Sunset: 6:00 PM Length of the day: 10 hours 1 minutes One of October’s longest and warmest spells of Gossamer Summer was drawing to a hazy, stagnant close on this date in 1947. For the fourth day in a row, the thermometer reached or exceeded 80...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 18, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Between 6:45 and 7:00 PM this evening, you’ll get a brief glimpse of the departing star Antares, the “heart” of Scorpio, the Scorpion, low in the southwest, sparkling red to the right of a waxing Crescent Moon. Antares slips into the...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 18, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:09 AM Sunset: 6:01 PM Length of the day: 10 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1783, the second tropical storm system of the month was close enough to bring heavy precipitation, but far enough east to draw cold air from the north into its circulation. This...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 17, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Our dark evenings favor star gazers, especially attempting to find fainter objects. One such item is the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin, appearing like a coma-shaped pattern of stars, very high and due south at 7:45 PM. Using the lowest star in the Summer...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 17, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:08 AM Sunset: 6:03 PM Length of the day: 10 hours 1 minutes “Early winter is surely winter” as the old adage goes. A British-led Mohawk raiding party attacked Royalton, VT on this date in 1780, with mid-winter conditions, including 8 inches of...
