by FLEK Admin | Jul 20, 2024 | NightSky
Today: On this day in 1969, millions of people on the Earth watched as one man, Neil Armstrong, became the first person to visit the Moon, the first of six successful missions to the Moon. You’ll see the Moon this evening as a slender Crescent, low in the...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 19, 2024 | NightSky
Today: High in the east-northeast is the star Deneb, the tail of Cygnus, the Swan. Deneb is Arabic for “the tail”, though Arabs described this region as the “chicken”. While Deneb is less bright than the other members of the Summer Triangle – Vega overhead, and...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 18, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The star Capella is right on the northern horizon, due north at 10:15 PM EDT. While it is essentially not viewable, it never sets at our latitude. By midnight, it will be rising in the north-northeast. In six months from now, it will be almost exactly overhead...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 17, 2024 | NightSky
Today: As darkness fall at about 10 PM, the waxing gibbous Moon will appear in the south, with another encounter with a bright star. Last Saturday, it was Spica. Tonight it is the red star Antares’ turn, appearing to the Moon’s right. As the Moon tracks...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 16, 2024 | NightSky
Today: High in the east-southeast at 10:30 are three bright stars which make up the Summer Triangle. The highest and brightest is Vega, lower and to the left is Deneb, and lowest and more toward the south is Altair. Altair comes from an Arabic word meaning the “flying...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 15, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The spacecraft New Horizons passed by Pluto and its moons on this date in 2015, sending back amazing images of a surprisingly changeable surface, covered with regions of frozen nitrogen glaciers, methane craters, and water-ice mountains, as well as a thin but...
