by FLEK Admin | May 3, 2023 | NightSky
As the twilight fades by 9:15 PM or so, the waxing Gibbous Moon is escorted across the southern skies by the bright, steely-blue star Spica, located just to its lower right. Spica is diminished by the lunar glare this evening, but regains its composure as the Moon...
by FLEK Admin | May 2, 2023 | NightSky
Today features an event that can’t been seen, but one that has been of interest to astronomers since the earliest observers. Early this morning, the planet Mercury passes between the Earth and the Sun, known as its “inferior conjunction”. The...
by FLEK Admin | May 1, 2023 | NightSky
Today is May Day, and is known in the Celtic tradition as Beltane, marking the traditional half-way point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. These mid-points of the seasons are called “cross-quarter days”, as they are exactly between the...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 30, 2023 | NightSky
As the bright winter stars of Orion retire in the west, two lonely bright stars rise toward their summer prominence in the skies in the east. Looking high in the northeast to find the Big Dipper, and follow the “arc” of its handle lower and to the right, locating the...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 29, 2023 | NightSky
As the last of the twilight fades after 8:30, look higher into the southeastern skies, where the celestial Lion, Leo, appears to have swallowed the waxing Gibbous Moon, progressing to due south, about two thirds of the way above the horizon, at 10 o’clock....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 28, 2023 | NightSky
Rising in the east-southeast as twilight yields to darkness, a steely-blue star rises in the east-southeast, the brightest star in Virgo, the Virgin, Spica. One way to find it is to follow the “arc” of the Big Dipper’s handle, high in the northeast,...
