by FLEK Admin | Oct 14, 2024 | NightSky
Today: More and more, Columbus Day has become a celebration of indigenous people. Look to the northeastern horizon just after 8 o’clock, where we can watch the Seven Starry Dancers rise, known also as the Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades. This smudge of stars,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 13, 2024 | NightSky
Today: A waxing Gibbous Moon shines in the southern skies this evening, making its way toward the bright, star-like object to its left, the planet Saturn. They start in the southeast as twilight ends by 7 o’clock, and then climb a little higher as they slide to...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 12, 2024 | NightSky
Today: When Columbus landed in the Bahamas on this date in 1492, he used the North Star to determine his location. However, he mistakenly used the star Alderamin in Cepheus, and thought he landed near what is now Boston. Either tropical breezes, or an able assistant,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 11, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Over the next week, a comet rises into the western skies, called Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. As long as it survives it passage around the Sun at the end of September, its climbs higher each evening, very low and in the twilight near due west this evening, its tail...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 10, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Directly overhead this evening at 8:10 PM is Deneb, the tail of the Swan, or the top of the Northern Cross. Although Deneb appears as the faintest star of the Summer Triangle, it is by far the most powerful. While Vega shines 40 times brighter than our Sun, and...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 9, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Autumn has not discouraged the Summer Triangle, just given us a different view. Seen crossing overhead near midnight in the summer, it now appears overhead in the evening. Look for the faintest of the three stars, Deneb, close to the zenith this evening, while...
