by FLEK Admin | Nov 27, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The planet Mars will again rise within the constellation Cancer this evening at around 9:30. Mars has been getting brighter and brighter this month, en route to its opposition from the sun on January 16th, when Mars will reach its maximum brightness. Thursday:...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 26, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Tomorrow morning, early risers can see the Moon pass in front of the bright star Spica, temporarily obscuring it. This occultation starts at 5:40 AM, lasting slightly more than one hour. However, the Moon’s progression finally makes it past Spica at 6:50,...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 25, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Between 7:30 and 8 PM, look about halfway up in the northeastern sky. In the left hand of the constellation Perseus shines the binary star Algol. Between 7:14 and 9:14 PM, Algol reaches its minimum brightness, when the fainter of its 2 stars eclipses the...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 24, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Due east this evening at 6:50 PM will be a faint cluster of stars called the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. To see them easier, look slightly to their side (either one), and their faint light hits a more sensitive part of your eye. In Japan they are known as...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 23, 2024 | 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 9:50 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 22, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Late this evening, after 11 o’clock, the Last Quarter Moon and the bright star Regulus, the “heart” of the constellation Leo, the Lion, make their way into the heavens. Through the wee hours of tomorrow morning, this “half Moon”...
