by FLEK Admin | May 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today is May Day, and is known in the Celtic tradition as Beltane, marking the traditional half-way point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. These mid-points of the seasons are called “cross-quarter days”, as they are exactly...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 30, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:43 AM Sunset: 7:53 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 10 minutes It is not unusual to see flooding this time of year as soggy ground and remaining snow in the mountains adds to the spring rain. However, fourteen years ago, in 2011, rapid snowmelt, combined...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Around 8:15 this evening, the waxing Crescent Moon emerges from the twilight, about one third of the way up in western sky. About this time, Jupiter comes into view, below it, a fine pairing that settles to about one quarter of the way up in the west-northwest...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers should find a low, level horizon to the east and southeast, if they hope to catch of glimpse of the ringed-world Saturn rising in the brightening twilight, quite low, but made a little easier by the presence of the far-brighter Venus. Once you spot...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 29, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:44 AM Sunset: 7:52 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 8 minutes On this day in 1874, it was snowing again in northern New England. The final installment of snow in a very snowy month brought another 10 inches of snow to Woodstock, VT, raising the snow on...
