by FLEK Admin | Feb 20, 2023 | NightSky
The most distant object human eyes can see, the Andromeda galaxy, appears as a faint smudge of light, one half of the way above the west-northwest horizon, as twilight ends after 7 o’clock this evening. It appears between the stars of Andromeda, and her mother,...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 19, 2023 | NightSky
By 7:30 PM this evening, the “twin” stars of Gemini appear quite high in the east-southeast, two-thirds of the way up from the horizon, and ride very high across the southern skies. Pollux, a bit brighter and on the lower left, and Castor, on the upper...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 18, 2023 | NightSky
Today marks the anniversary of the discovery of Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh was examining pictures taken through the telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona in January, 1930, over a period of days. One of the “stars” in the image moved while the stars remained in...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 17, 2023 | NightSky
Orion is an easy target, even on a moonlit night. Tonight, the lack of moonlight might give you an opportunity to see a fainter feature of our winter Giant. Look below his three belt stars, where a fainter line marks his sword. The very end of the sword is a little...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 16, 2023 | NightSky
Although Saturn has been out of view since the end of January, our orbit places Saturn directly behind the Sun today and tonight, known as “conjunction”. Last fall into the winter, Saturn appeared in the evening skies. It will take until April to be...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 15, 2023 | NightSky
The dark skies near the New Moon reveal the splendors of the Milky Way arched over the top of the sky. Early this evening, in the midst of the Milky Way and directly overhead near 7:25 PM, the star Capella sparkles as the 4th brightest star we can see.
