by FLEK Admin | Feb 11, 2023 | NightSky
To the left of the red planet Mars this evening, binoculars or a small telescope might give you a view of the departing Comet ZTF, see to Mars’s left as a faint, greenish blob. Not only will this be an interesting color contrast to Mars, but this comet is racing...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 10, 2023 | NightSky
Late this evening, a waning Gibbous Moon climbs into the east-southeast near 10:45 PM, welcoming the stellar companion Spica about 15 minutes later. Spica, a blue-tinted star, ranks as the only bright star in the zodiac constellation Virgo, the Maiden or...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 9, 2023 | NightSky
Looking due east at 7:00 this evening, Leo the Lion climbs above the horizon, with the Twins of Gemini much higher. About halfway between them, search for a faint sprinkling of stars, called the “Beehive”, a swarm of stars in the faint constellation Cancer, the...
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...
