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...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 17, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:03 AM Sunset: 7:37 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 34 minutes An interesting weather week was finishing up on this date in 1976. It started with an inch or two of snow on Monday. But by the 17th a heat wave that developed in the middle of the country headed...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 16, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Due south this evening at 9:15 PM, the brightest star in Leo, the Lion, Regulus reigns above a large but much less prominent constellation, that of the Water Snake, named Hydra. The snake’s head appears as a collection of stars half-way between Regulus,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 16, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:05 AM Sunset: 7:36 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 31 minutes On this date in 1992, a second snow storm followed a record cold spell to top off the winter season, as it were. 4 to 8 inches of snow fell throughout the region, but in the higher terrain in the...
