by FLEK Admin | Apr 24, 2023 | NightSky
Orion is now very low in the western skies, by the end of twilight, his feet along the horizon by 9:00 PM, with his belt only visible with a perfect view to the west and southwest. Orion’s stars are among the brightest in the sky because they are relatively close by....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 23, 2023 | NightSky
As twilight finishes up between 8:30 and 9 o’clock, the waxing Crescent Moon continues its evening tour, appearing above Venus, and below the star El Nath, the tip of one of the horns of Taurus, the Bull. They start about one third of the way up in the west, and...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 22, 2023 | NightSky
This evening, with another night ahead to watch the Lyrid meteors, you can get your star gazing started with a slender Crescent Moon “smiling” between the brilliant Venus to its upper left, and the patch of stars called the Seven Sisters at an equal...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 21, 2023 | NightSky
With the waxing Crescent emerging from the twilight, well below the Seven Sisters, it presents no interference to viewing the first principle meteor shower of the year, the Lyrid Meteor Shower. An average of 10 to 20 “shooting stars” can be seen on a dark,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2023 | NightSky
The steely blue star rising in the north-northeast, low but due northeast at 9:45 PM, is Vega, from the German “Wega”, and from the Arabic “Al Wika”, the “swooping or diving eagle”. In modern times it is the brightest star in Lyra,...
