by FLEK Admin | Apr 16, 2023 | NightSky
Venus dazzles every clear evening from now into June, while its progression through the stars of Taurus the Bull form an interesting arrangement this evening. As the sky darkens after 8:30, look to its left for the red star Aldebaran, Taurus’s brightest star,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 15, 2023 | NightSky
An interesting view sets up for very early risers tomorrow morning. Just a blush of twilight sits along the northeast horizon at 10 minutes after 5, while Saturn makes its return to the skies, low in the east-southeast. You might not easily pick out Saturn, except a...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 14, 2023 | NightSky
For reasons that scientists don’t yet understand, the aurora borealis, or “northern lights” are seen more frequently in April. The Sun, unusually quiet over the past few years, now shows a significant increase in sunspots and other solar activity, improving our...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 13, 2023 | NightSky
Not only is Orion lowering into the west more and more with each passing evening, but the Milky Way is also dropping nearer the horizon. Its faint light makes it difficult to see near the horizon through the thicker part of the atmosphere, and it will remain obscure...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 12, 2023 | NightSky
Jupiter reaches its conjunction with the Sun today, which from our view is directly behind it, completely out of view. With Jupiter’s slow paced orbit of 12 years, it will be the Earth’s orbital motion that changes our view of the largest planet, gradually...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 11, 2023 | NightSky
Mercury shines at its best for a few more nights, reaching a position called its Greatest Eastern Elongation, or its greatest separation from the Sun. By 8 o’clock, Venus gleams remarkably bright, one third of the way up in the west. Mercury sits about two...
