by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:00 AM Sunset: 7:40 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 40 minutes A rare April heat wave was climaxing on this date during the Bicentennial year of the United States, 1976. Thermometers reached mid-summer levels, including 90 degrees in Montpelier and St....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2026 | NightSky
Today: In the west at around 8:30 PM. the waxing Crescent Moon becomes brighter in the fading twilight. The emerging Jupiter appears high in the west-southwest. Almost straight to the Moon’s left in the bright star Aldebaran, and to its left Betelgeuse, in...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 18, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:02 AM Sunset: 7:38 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 36 minutes Almost 30 years ago, April of 1996 was a very snowy one across the higher elevations of New York and northern New England. On this date Peru, VT watched another seven inches of snow pile up, with...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 18, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Barely past new, the barest of a crescent Moon will follow the setting sun toward the horizon in the west-northwest. Appearing shortly after, barely above to the Moon’s left, will Venus, and above Venus will be the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. Although...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 17, 2026 | NightSky
Today: The steely blue star rising in the north-northeast, low but due northeast at 10:00 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...
