by FLEK Admin | Aug 18, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:57 AM Sunset: 7:50 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 53 minutes The days are getting shorter and the nights are longer, which means nights begin to cool. However, on this date in 1918, the cooling was a bit extreme as some of the coldest weather so early...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The early morning skies are getting crowded! From 4 to 5 o’clock, the waning Crescent Moon presides one quarter of the way up in the east, above Jupiter to its lower left, and the even brighter Venus, farther to the lower left. To the left of the planets,...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 17, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:56 AM Sunset: 7:52 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 56 minutes On this date in 1955, Burlington experienced its heaviest 24 hour rainfall up to that time, of 3.59 inches, part of its wettest August. However, this record was broken in 1998, when 3.62...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Andromeda Galaxy is the only distant galaxy we can see with our own eyes. In the next few nights look in the northeast, just below the Milky Way, and about one third of the way up from the horizon near 9:15 PM EDT. It appears as a small, oval smudge of...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Just after 10:30 this evening, the Half Moon climbs into the east-northeast. As the Moon climbs higher in the hours after midnight, take note of the patch of faint stars struggling to be seen just above our celestial neighbor, known as the Seven Sisters, or the...
