by FLEK Admin | Oct 6, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Just as the clock strikes midnight, a Last Quarter Moon arrives in the northeast, just to the right of a pair of stars, known as the Twins of Gemini. Although the arrangement varies from month to month, the Moon makes it a monthly habit to visit the Twins, part...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 6, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:54 AM Sunset: 6:22 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1836, a cold weather pattern had settled into the northeast. The second of three early snows fell, focused mostly on southern New York and northern Pennsylvania where up to 26...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 5, 2023 | NightSky
Today: October offers our best view of a bright but rarely noticed star in the south. Look low in the south-southeast near 8:00 PM for a rather bright star, known to astronomers as Fomalhaut, reaching due south near 10:50 PM. The name originates from Arabic for the...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 5, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:53 AM Sunset: 6:24 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes Going back to 1965, following some unseasonably hot weather in late September, the weather turned shockingly winter-like. Temperatures remained in the 30s, while snow dusted the ground. The timing...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 4, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Arcturus, the brightest star in the evening skies, still close to due west, one quarter of the way up as twilight ends, setting earlier each evening, and heads below the west-northwest horizon at 9:30 PM EDT. Arcturus owes its brilliance to its relatively close...
