by FLEK Admin | Dec 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Geminid Meteor shower reaches its peak tonight. This is the year’s most prolific displays of meteors, producing over 100 shooting stars per hour. The Twins of Gemini are one third of the way up by 9 o’clock, which means the meteors are active...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Should you look due south at 6 o’clock this evening, once the last of the twilight has been vanquished, Saturn reaches it highest point, close to half way from the horizon to the zenith. Directly above Saturn appears a large square of modestly brighter...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 11, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s half Moon, or Last Quarter, rises in the east at midnight, pushed just ahead of the constellation Virgo. The Moon will ride across the southern sky during the predawn hours. Through mid-morning, it will remain visible in the west-southwest,...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 10, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Mercury remains near its best morning view position for the year, low in the southeast, about one hand-width above a level horizon at 6 o’clock, rising to almost two hand-widths by 6:30, as the Sun’s growing twilight overwhelms our swiftest planet....
by FLEK Admin | Dec 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: In the east-northeast at around 10 PM, the breast of Leo the Lion, marked by its brightest star Regulus, appears to push before it the rising Gibbous Moon. It’s interesting to note that the Sun passes Regulus in late August. Connecting that to this...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Before the waning Gibbous Moon takes to the skies this evening, notice Orion climbing into the east and southeast, his three bright belt stars nearly vertical. It always reminds me of Robert Frost’s poetic description of Orion, who “always comes up...
