by FLEK Admin | Dec 3, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon appears Full to the unaided eye, but it’s still 24 from the specifc moment of Full, when it is directly opposite the Sun. The Moon rises to one third of the way up and due east at 6:30 this evening, its light washing out the faint cluster of...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon continues to grow larger in the evenings, but it won’t interfere with some interesting planet viewing. Saturn, cresting due south this evening at 6:50, will be joined about a half hour later by the even brighter Jupiter, rising in the...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A bright, waxing Gibbous Moon greatly diminishes the stars, especially the fainter ones. That leaves the brighter stars for us to view, including two celestial gems well to the left of the Moon in the northeast. The higher of the two is Capella, one of the...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Orion has been rising earlier and earlier all month. With a level view to the east-northeast, the constellation is fully risen by 8 PM, with the belt above the horizon by 7:30, while on November first this took until around 9 o’clock. By mid January the belt...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the evening twilight fades between 5 and 5:30, the waxing Gibbous Moon is apparent in the southeast. To its right, nestled among the faint stars between the constellation Aquarius to the right, and Picses to the left, glows the planet Saturn, famous for its...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Looking due east, two-thirds of the way up from the horizon at 5:30 PM, the middle star of Andromeda marks her waist, joined by a star of similar brightness to the upper right for her head, and another marking her foot to the lower left. Follow two fainter...
