by FLEK Admin | Apr 22, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Tonight the Moon will have a very close encounter with our largest planetary neighbor, Jupiter. In the fading twilight at around 8:45 this evening, a wide, waxing Crescent Moon will appear two-thirds of the way up in the southwest. Hovering barely below the...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 21, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:57 AM Sunset: 7:42 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 45 minutes Spring appeared to be well underway on this date, in 1993. Temperatures reached the 60s in most places just ahead of a cold front. By evening, rain had turned to snow in the Adirondacks. While...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 21, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Tonight comes the expected peak of the Lyrid Meteor Shower. Look to the northeast around 10 PM. To the right of the bright star Vega, the Lyrids will be concentrated between the constellations Lyra and Hercules, and will lift high in the eastern sky. An average...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Just after the sun has set, at around 7:45 PM, Venus, will appear low in west. Venus is the brightest of all the planets in the night sky, bright enough to muscle through a lot of twilight. As the twilight fades its apparent brightness will increase, but it...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:58 AM Sunset: 7:41 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 43 minutes Spring is obviously not a smooth progression forward, but is fraught with set backs, such as the heavy, wet snowstorm that hit on this date in 1953. Most lower elevations experienced a cold rain,...
