by FLEK Admin | Jul 30, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The brightening waxing Gibbous Moon will diminish the fainter stars, leaving Summer’s brightest star, Arcturus, conspicuous west-southwest, halfway up from the horizon at 9:30 PM. The orange-white beacon has expanded into a red-giant, 25 times larger than...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 29, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The star Capella is right on the northern horizon, due north at 9:35 PM EDT. While it is essentially not viewable, it never sets at our latitude. By midnight, it will be rising in the north-northeast. In six months from now, it will be almost exactly overhead...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 28, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The Delta Aquariid Meteor shower is near its broad peak in activity, lasting from mid-July to mid-August. Though not prolific, the meteors tend to be slow and bright, worth waiting for a glimpse of one or two. The Moon continues to grow through its Gibbous...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 27, 2023 | NightSky
Today: A waxing Gibbous Moon tracks very low above the southern horizon this evening, with the fading twilight after 9 o’clock revealing a bright, reddish star well to the left of the Moon, Antares, the “heart” of the Scorpion. Closer to the Moon,...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 26, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The North Star, also known as Polaris, remains anchored halfway up from the northern horizon, never moving noticeably, though, technically, it does make a very small circle as the Earth rotates on its axis. The circle is a little more than one degree, or twice...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 25, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The First Quarter Moon settles in to the southwest this evening, while the teapot-shaped pattern of Sagittarius slides low over the southern horizon, due south near 11 o’clock. Although Sagittarius as a constellation portrays a centaur holding a bow and...
