by FLEK Admin | Mar 14, 2023 | NightSky
Today: With the Summer Triangle almost overhead, look at its lowest star Altair, and then to the left of Altair. A faint, compact collection of stars may catch your eyes, the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin. It appears like a comma, but perhaps you can imagine a...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 14, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Following the line of Orion’s Belt stars to the right, the red star Aldebaran should easily catch your attention. Look more carefully at this region, and you will see a “V” shaped pattern of stars making the Bull’s face. This faint group is called the Hyades,...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 13, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The Perseid Meteor Shower continues this evening, though past its peak. Even so, it is thrilling to see even a few “shooting stars” etch their path through the stars. Meteors are almost always favored after midnight, because ou spinning Earth turns...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 13, 2023 | NightSky
Today: I don’t know why you’d be up at 3 o’clock tomorrow morning, but if you are, look to the southeast for the Last Quarter Moon rising in the southeast, following the reddish star Antares up into the southeast. Antares shines as the...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 12, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The Perseid Meteor Shower peaks every year near August 12th, as the Earth passes through the debris of Comet Swift-Tuttle, with thousands of tiny pieces of dust and rock that burn up in our atmosphere 40 to 70 miles above us. After a few years of interference,...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 12, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Daylight Saving Time begins today, as we move the clocks ahead one hour, making the sunrise and sunset an hour later. There is actually a connection to astronomy, as time used to be “local”, based on the Sun at noon. That changed in the 1800s, when...
