by FLEK Admin | Nov 24, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Due east this evening at 6:50 PM will be a faint cluster of stars called the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. To see them easier, look slightly to their side (either one), and their faint light hits a more sensitive part of your eye. In Japan they are known as...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 23, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The eastern skies have gone to the dogs! Procyon, the star marking the Little Dog, is one of Orion’s hunting dogs, and rises at 9:50 PM. But the Great Dog comes into view a bit more than a half-hour later, as the star Sirius – the “Dog...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 22, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Late this evening, after 11 o’clock, the Last Quarter Moon and the bright star Regulus, the “heart” of the constellation Leo, the Lion, make their way into the heavens. Through the wee hours of tomorrow morning, this “half Moon”...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 21, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Near 8 o’clock this evening, as the Big Dipper scrapes the hills and trees along the northern horizon, look half way up in the north to find the North Star. Now continue, about the same distance to the top of the sky, where an upside-down w-shaped pattern...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 20, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Late this evening, the waning Gibbous Moon, one day from its Last Quarter, works its way above the east-northeast horizon in the company of Mars to its upper right, somewhat subdued by the Moon’s glare. You’ll find the pair one third of the way up,...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 19, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Vega, the brightest evening star, starts this night high in the west at 7 o’clock, and takes its time lowering through the northwest all evening, not setting until 2 o’clock tomorrow morning. Vega is bright, in part, because it is one of the closer...
