by FLEK Admin | Sep 1, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Venus is just starting an extended morning display for early risers, lasting into the beginning of 2024. Our planetary neighbor rises in the east-northeast near 4:15 AM, but is placed much better for viewing, still quite low, from 5 to 5:45 AM, when twilight...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 31, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Jupiter now rises less than 3 hours after sunset, a gain of about 2 hours from the beginning of August. It climbs above the east-northeast horizon close to 10 o’clock, and reaches about one quarter of the way up by midnight, at which point it appears due...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 30, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Saturn emerges just above our second Full Moon this month, the Full “Corn” Moon. Just a few days ago, Saturn reached “opposition”, a position directly opposite the Sun. Full Moon’s represent the same positioning, opposite the Sun...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 29, 2023 | NightSky
Today: While the Moon approaches Full, though rather low in the southeast, look to the zenith – the top of the sky – where a bright star shines with a steely-blue light. Vega ranks as the 4th brightest star in the heavens, twice as massive as our Sun,...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 28, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Below Saturn, with the waxing Gibbous Moon to the right, a bright star rises in the southeast near 10 o’clock, and crests due south just after 1 o’clock tomorrow morning, the lesser-known Fomalhaut. Even though Fomalhaut is the 13th brightest star...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 27, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Climbing into the east-southeast just after sunset, the golden-hued Saturn reaches opposition – its closest point to the Earth, 814.6 million miles away, as we pass directly between Saturn and the Sun. Well to the right of Saturn, the waxing Gibbous Moon...
