by FLEK Admin | Apr 10, 2023 | NightSky
Venus spends the next few evenings in the company of the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, the compact cluster of stars one quarter of the way up in the west as darkness envelops the skies. This patch of stars will be above Venus tonight by 8:30 PM or so, and with each...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 9, 2023 | NightSky
For night owls, or very early risers tomorrow morning, the southeastern skies host a wonderful view of the waning Gibbous Moon, rising just minutes before midnight, joined by the red star Antares, the “heart” of the Scorpion. They remain low in the...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 8, 2023 | NightSky
The northwestern skies in the evenings are home to Capella, the Goat Star. In mythology this is the nurse goat for the great Jupiter, and was rewarded with a place in the heavens. It is half way up from the horizon in the west-northwest at 9:15 PM, well to the right...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 7, 2023 | NightSky
The brilliant star in the southwest to the left of Orion’s belt is Sirius, the Dog Star. As it lowers closer to the horizon, notice that as it twinkles, it flashes many colors. Its light is bending on its way through our atmosphere, giving us pin-point glimpses...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 6, 2023 | NightSky
With the last of the twilight dying in the western skies by 8 o’clock, look to the southeast, where the Moon, Full last night, rises just after one of the brighter stars along its path, the steely-blue Spica, the primary star in the constellation Virgo, the...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 5, 2023 | NightSky
This evening, about 15 minutes before the Sun sets, the nearly Full “Pink” Moon rises in the east. The Moon is perfectly Full at 12:35 AM, though you won’t see any difference with your eyes. This Full Moon is known as the “Pink” Moon, named for wild...
