by FLEK Admin | Aug 31, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers this month have enjoyed an excellent display from Venus and Jupiter, but let’s give a nod to the “other” morning planet, the alwayss challenging Mercury, making a modest appearance within the morning twilight. Having as low and...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon’s cycle of 29 and a half days, being less than a calendar month, ends this month as it began. Having cycled back to its first quarter phase, it is half illuminated, and appears in the south-southwest at darkness falls. It has also circled back into the...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Saturn is now rising near the end of twilight, at 8:30 in the east, and slides higher into the east-southeast, one quarter of the way into the heavens by 10:30. Saturn’s great distance means it takes decades to orbit the Sun, which means we see it in...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A low, level view to the southwest shows that the Crescent Moon is now drifting farther away from the blue star Spica, and the two won’t rendezvous again until doing so during predawn hours in November and December. Spica is one of four bright stars the...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Flanked to its right by Spica, a slender, waxing Crescent Moon slides low above the southwestern horizon this evening, with the tips of its horns nearly vertical. This gives the appearance that the Moon cannot “hold water”, and therefore gives us...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At around 8:30 this evening, Mars and Spica again hover above the horizon in the west-southwest. But this time they cradle the Crescent Moon between them. The Moon will be the first to set, at 8:52 PM, Mars doing so immediately thereafter, and Spica dropping...
