by FLEK Admin | Aug 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers tomorrow morning are treated to a thinning Crecent Moon surrounded by celestial treasures. Immediately left of the Moon is Pollux, the lower of the twin stars of Gemini, with the other, Castor, above. Venus glows brightly to the Moon’s lower...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The early morning skies are getting crowded! From 4 to 5 o’clock, the waning Crescent Moon presides one quarter of the way up in the east, above Jupiter to its lower left, and the even brighter Venus, farther to the lower left. To the left of the planets,...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Andromeda Galaxy is the only distant galaxy we can see with our own eyes. In the next few nights look in the northeast, just below the Milky Way, and about one third of the way up from the horizon near 9:15 PM EDT. It appears as a small, oval smudge of...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Just after 10:30 this evening, the Half Moon climbs into the east-northeast. As the Moon climbs higher in the hours after midnight, take note of the patch of faint stars struggling to be seen just above our celestial neighbor, known as the Seven Sisters, or the...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Perseid Meteor Shower continues this evening, again further from its peak, but the moon is dimming, now down to 59 percent illuminated. Meteors are almost always favored after midnight, because our spinning Earth turns into the direction we are orbiting....
by FLEK Admin | Aug 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Low in the failing southwestern twilight between 8:45 and 9:15 PM, you will find the bright, bluish-white star Spica nearing the end of its viewing for the year. Although Spica ranks just outside the top-ten brightest stars, at 250 light years away, actually...
