by FLEK Admin | Feb 22, 2023 | NightSky
George Washington’s birthday (not the holiday) welcomes an eye-catching arrangement in the western twilight. As twilight begins to dim near 6 o’clock, a slender, waxing Crescent Moon welcomes the company of Jupiter, just above it, while Venus gleams below...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 21, 2023 | NightSky
Due south this evening at 8:30 PM EST is the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, the “nose” of Canis Major, the Great Dog. The path of all stars and planets creates an arc, with its highest point due south, placing Sirius in its best viewing position. The name Sirius...
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...
