by FLEK Admin | Jul 9, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Very low in the west, as the twilight fades from 9:45 through 10:15, you’ll see Venus, brilliant but low above the horizon. Look to Venus’s upper left, where a pair of contrasting objects appear – the reddish planet Mars just to the upper...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 8, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Tonight near midnight, the bluish-white star Vega is nearly overhead, while the brilliant pale-orange Arcturus is about half way up from the horizon in the west. Between, about two thirds of the way from Arcturus up to Vega, a bow-tie shaped pattern of stars...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 7, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Today is the “seventh day of the seventh Moon” – moons being months – and is the traditional day for cultures in the Far East to celebrate the story of the Goddess of Weaving and the Handsome Farmer, more familiar to us as the Summer Triangle, directly overhead...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 6, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Today finds the Earth at aphelion – its greatest distance from the Sun – at 94,506,364 miles. Yes, July is the hottest month of the year on average, but it is our tilted axis, angled toward the Sun in summer, and not our distance, that gives us longer days and...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 5, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Very late this evening, the waning Gibbous Moon climbs into the east-southeast, but not alone. Just a few minutes after the Moon near 1 o’clock, the ringed planet Saturn returns to the evening skies, well to the left of the Moon. By midnight tomorrow...
