by FLEK Admin | Sep 24, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Cassiopeia, the Queen, is a w-shaped constellation in the north-northeast this evening. The picture of the Queen is often one of her sitting on her throne, this time of year lying on its back with the legs toward your right. Thursday: Rising in the...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 23, 2025 | NightSky
Today: If you look straight up at 9:45 PM this evening, within the gossamer light of the Milky Way shines the star Deneb, the least bright of the trio of stars forming the Summer Triangle. In spite of its comparative brightness, it actually reigns as a stellar...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 22, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The dark skies near the New Moon are always rewarding for the faint stars now exposed. Yet, despite their lack of luster, these lesser components are by far the most numerous. Consider that on a dark, clear night you can see up to 2000 stars, yet only 35 are as...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today is Autumnal Equinox. At 2:19 PM EDT, the sun crosses the equator, introducing Autumn to those of us in the northern hemisphere. The days will continue to shorten, but at an ever decreasing rate, until we reach the Winter Solstice at 10:03 AM EST, on...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Saturn will rise just south of east at around 7:30 this evening, in between Pisces and Aquarius. Tonight and tomorrow night, the Earth passes between the Sun and Saturn, an arrangement called opposition for Saturn. This places us as close to Saturn as we get,...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: An unusual, and not-well-known phenomenon can be viewed by those up before the “crack of dawn, about 2 hours before sunrise, or about 4:30 AM. Looking east on a clear, moonless morning, a wedge of light, leaning its triangular shape to the upper right is...
