by FLEK Admin | Oct 17, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Full “Hunter’s” Moon lights up the skies overnight, and sits between the two giant planets, Saturn and Jupiter. However, when you see the Moon climbing into the east-northeast, only Saturn is visible, and very far to the right. Jupiter rises near 9...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 16, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Moon reaches Full tomorrow night, the Full “Hunter’s” Moon, though it rides across the skies over the next few nights. Its name implies the hunting that is done in the fall to provide food through the winter. It is also known as the Kindly Moon in Chinese...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 15, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS should be near its best for viewing, positioned right between Venus, low in the southwest, and the star Arcturus, one quarter of the way up at 6:45 PM as the comet emerges from the twilight. Through 7:15 the comet edges lower, while the...
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,...
