by FLEK Admin | Feb 8, 2023 | NightSky
Orion boasts a fine collection of bright stars, including the bluish-white beacon to the lower right of his three belt stars. Rigel, meaning “left foot”, is classified as a blue supergiant, estimated to be 860 light years, and emitting approximately 200 thousand times...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 7, 2023 | NightSky
Orion is in the south this evening, his left foot (on the right as we face him) denoted by the star Rigel, which is Arabic for “left foot”. The bright star that marks his right shoulder (on our left) is called Betelgeuse, also Arabic, though its meaning is...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 6, 2023 | NightSky
The Moon is just a day past Full as it rises in the company of Regulus, the brightest star in Leo, the Lion. The pair rises as twilight fades by 6 o’clock, and are due east, one quarter of the way up by 8 o’clock. They crest high in the south near 1...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 5, 2023 | NightSky
The Full “Snow” Moon rises almost exactly at sunset near 5 o’clock this evening, in the east-northeast, and tracks high across the skies all night long tonight. This Full Moon also goes by the name The Hunger Moon, the Trapper’s Moon, and for...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 4, 2023 | NightSky
Brilliant moonlight will hamper stargazers this evening, but the trio of bright stars marking Orion’s Belt should be easy to spot, due south in the evenings near 8:30 PM. The star on the left, Alnitak, is actually a triplet of stars, the two primary stars...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 3, 2023 | NightSky
If Comet ZTF is visible, you’ll find it very high in the north, half way between the brilliant star Capella near the top of the sky, and the line the runs from the outer edge of the Big Dipper back to Polaris, the North Star. Binoculars will help, revealing a...
