by FLEK Admin | Oct 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Dark evenings tonight and tomorrow will offer a chance to see the Andromeda Galaxy, the most distant object human eyes can see. Look in the east-northeast for a slightly curved line of three stars, angled a bit up on the right end. From the middle star, go up...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Orionid Meteor Shower reaches its peak tonight. It is best seen in the hours after midnight, and the New Moon will contribute to favorable viewing conditions. The fragments of rock are part of debris released by Halley’s Comet, producing some 10 to 20...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Milky Way becomes more prominent through the Fall, stretching from northeast to southwest across the top of the sky. It is our view of the Milky Way Galaxy from the inside, looking out. The Sun is embedded in a great disc of stars, and we are looking...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The delay in the sunrise until after 7 o’clock means you don’t have to get up quite so early to enjoy an eye-catching display of the very slender waning Crescent Moon to the right of the brilliant Venus, rising just before 6 o’clock, and...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Cresting due south this evening at 11 o’clock, Saturn is easy to locate, about half way up. Then, turn your gaze lower, more to the right of due south, where a rather bright, but rarely noticed star makes its best evening appearance of the year. Known to...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Guess who is now fully risen before midnight? The Winter champion Orion lifts into the east and southeast for night owls, tracking to due south by 4:45 AM tomorrow morning, and then heads into the southwest just as twilight begins, around 6 o’clock....
