by FLEK Admin | Nov 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Just past 8 PM, three stars will rise in the eastern sky, appearing close together and vertically aligned, to comprise Orion’s belt. These stars are much less bright than Orion’s brightest, those being Orion and Betelgeuse. But the close alignment of the belt...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers tomorrow morning can look for the bright and blueish-white star Spica to rise in the east-southeast at 4:00 AM. Also rising in the east-southeast, about an hour later, will be the waning sliver of a crescent Moon. Following in the same line,...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: November’s Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight, but you’ll need to stay up late to see the peak, which will occur around 1:00 AM. The Leonid shower is so-called because its shooting stars give the impression of shooting outward from the constellation...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The eastern skies have gone to the dogs! Procyon, the star marking the Little Dog, is one of Orion’s hunting dogs, and rises at 9:30 PM. But the Great Dog comes into view a bit more than a half-hour later, as the star Sirius – the “Dog...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At 5:30 AM tomorrow, early risers can see the Crescent Moon about a third of the way up in the southeast. Low in the east-southeast is the bright blue star Spica. If you connect an imaginary line between Spica and Moon, and then follow it high in the sky, it...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At 7:50 PM you can see a faint cluster of stars called The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, appearing a little less than halfway up in the east. To locate them more easily, you can first identify the bright and orange-red star Aldebaran, which appears due east, and...
