by FLEK Admin | Jan 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: While Mars remains a celestial show-piece in the eastern skies, a little later this evening we’ll see another pairing that’s worthy of mention. Once Mars is nearly halfway up, due east at 8 o’clock, watching the rising waning Gibbous Moon...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Mars reaches opposition tonight, rising at sunset, and setting at sunrise, for an “all-nighter” across the heavens. We are making our closest passage to Mars since December of 2022, though Mars’s very elliptical orbit changes this distance...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: With the Moon just one day past Full, can you make out the “Man in the Moon” – created by the darker regions of the Moon? Another common figure is a rabbit or hare, with two long ears at the top, a body curved down the left side, and feet near...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As twilight fades to black after 5:30 this evening, the Full “Wolf” Moon enjoys one of its most intriguing encounters of the year, passing right between the Earth and Mars. Mars appears just to the lower left of the Moon to start, then as the pair...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Glowing brightly within the collection of Winter’s brightest stars, the waxing Gibbous Moon finds itself halfway up in the east at 7:30 PM, surrounded by Capella, high above, Aldebaran, the red eye of Taurus, the Bull, well right, while the even brighter...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 11, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The “Winter Diamond” of four dazzling stars sits in the southeast this evening, featuring Betelgeuse at the top, its orange hue due to its tremendous size causing it to cool. The lowest star is the brightest, Sirius, the Dog Star. The other dog...
