by FLEK Admin | Jan 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: For the next few nights, an excellent planetary encounter – a conjunction – graces the southwestern skies, featuring the dazzling Venus, and the iconic Saturn. Saturn begins to the lower left of Venus, and through the next four nights remains about...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Twins have temporarily become triplets in the eastern skies. The Twins refer to the “twin” stars of Castor and Pollux, representing the mythical twin brothers known as the constellation Gemini. To their lower right shines Mars, in line with them...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: While Mars remains a celestial show-piece in the eastern skies, a little later this evening we’ll see another pairing that’s worthy of mention. Once Mars is nearly halfway up, due east at 8 o’clock, watching the rising waning Gibbous Moon...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Mars reaches opposition tonight, rising at sunset, and setting at sunrise, for an “all-nighter” across the heavens. We are making our closest passage to Mars since December of 2022, though Mars’s very elliptical orbit changes this distance...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: With the Moon just one day past Full, can you make out the “Man in the Moon” – created by the darker regions of the Moon? Another common figure is a rabbit or hare, with two long ears at the top, a body curved down the left side, and feet near...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As twilight fades to black after 5:30 this evening, the Full “Wolf” Moon enjoys one of its most intriguing encounters of the year, passing right between the Earth and Mars. Mars appears just to the lower left of the Moon to start, then as the pair...
