June 6, 2025

Sunrise: 5:07 AM Sunset: 8:31 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 24 minutes Residents of northwestern and central Vermont enjoyed a quiet day 31 years ago on this date, in 1984, but clouds gathered toward dark, followed by thunderstorms that dumped up to 6 inches of...

Friday, June 06, 2025

Today: Night owls can see a pale yellow point of light rising in the east-southeast at 2 o’clock, better seen after 3 AM, our distant planetary cousin, Saturn. Much closer, and much brighter as well as more intense in its yellow hue, Venus will rise about an...

Thursday, June 05, 2025

Today: Looking to the southwest at 9:30, you can pan toward the west and see that Regulus has drawn noticeably closer to Mars. If you then pan toward the south, you can see that Moon has drawn close to the bright and blue star Spica, the Moon appearing to its right....

June 5, 2025

Sunrise: 5:08 AM Sunset: 8:30 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 22 minutes A severe frost struck much of the northeast, midwest, and Great Lakes on this date in 1859. Crops were severely damaged in New England, with most of the corn crop forced to by cut down and...

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

Today: June finds the Milky Way just beginning to return to the skies in the east, surrounded by the three bright stars of the Summer Triangle. The Milky Way will climb a little higher each evening,, allowing the skies to feature increasingly better views of the faint...