by FLEK Admin | May 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Eta Aquariid meteor shower continues tonight, with modest interference from the Moon. Best seen after midnight, with up to 15 meteors or “shooting stars” per hour, you’ll find much darker skies after the Moon sets near 3:30 AM. These...
by FLEK Admin | May 5, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:36 AM Sunset: 7:59 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 23 minutes A late season nor’easter was finishing up on this date, over 200 years ago in 1812. Rain changed to snow as far south as Philadelphia, while the higher elevations in southern Vermont...
by FLEK Admin | May 5, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon, now a waxing gibbous, has reached Leo, and is abreast of Regulus, the star that mark’s Leos breast plate, and which is also the constellation’s brightest. The Moon’s next close encounter with a bright star will be when it cozies up next to Spica, in...
by FLEK Admin | May 4, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:37 AM Sunset: 7:58 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 21 minutes The winter of 1798-99 was known as the Long Winter, having started with a heavy snowstorm on the 19th of November. The snow was heavy and deep well into spring. On this date in 1799, a rather...
by FLEK Admin | May 4, 2025 | NightSky
Today: High in the southwest in the failing twilight, the First Quarter Moon appears halfway between Mars and Regulus, the brightest star in Leo. Regulus sits very close to the path of the Sun, the same general path that the Moon follows, so these two have a regularly...
