by FLEK Admin | Oct 2, 2024 | NightSky
Today: If starting with a glance to the northwest around sunset, the progression of the evening will feature Ursa Major, the Big Bear, appearing to dive toward the northern horizon, and then lifting back away from the horizon after midnight. It will circle around Ursa...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 1, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Dark evenings tonight and tomorrow will offer a chance to see the Andromeda Galaxy, the most distant object human eyes can see. Look in the east-northeast for a slightly curved line of three stars, angled a bit up on the right end. From the middle star, go up...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 30, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Milky Way arcs across the sky from the northeast, where the bright star Capella is rising, running through the Summer Triangle overhead, and then is anchored in the southwest with the setting star Antares, the red star marking the heart of Scorpio, the...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 29, 2024 | NightSky
Today: With the Crescent Moon now below Leo’s bright star Regulus tomorrow morning from 5 o’clock to sunrise, from 6 to 6:15 AM, look well to the Moon’s lower right, where, just above the horizon, you might see a comet in the twilight, Comet...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 28, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Early tomorrow morning, at around 3:30 AM, a dwindling sliver of the crescent moon will rise in the east-northeast, and within the breast of Leo, The Lion. The Moon will appear just to the left of Regulus, Leo’s brightest star, due east by 5:30 AM, just before...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 27, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The brightest star in the Summer Triangle, Vega, appears nearly overhead as the last of the twilight fades near 7:30 PM. Vega’s brilliance is due, in part, to its location just 25 light years away, and because it is the fourth brightest star within 50...
