by FLEK Admin | Sep 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Saturn will rise just south of east at around 7:30 this evening, in between Pisces and Aquarius. Tonight and tomorrow night, the Earth passes between the Sun and Saturn, an arrangement called opposition for Saturn. This places us as close to Saturn as we get,...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: An unusual, and not-well-known phenomenon can be viewed by those up before the “crack of dawn, about 2 hours before sunrise, or about 4:30 AM. Looking east on a clear, moonless morning, a wedge of light, leaning its triangular shape to the upper right is...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tomorrow morning, starting near 4:45, but best viewed from 5:15 to 5:45 AM, Leo the Lion will be rising in the east-northeast. Venus and the Crescent Moon will be closely clustered around the lion’s breastbone and brightest star, Regulus. The Moon will only...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At around 8:00 PM, the evening twilight will fade, showing Saturn to have risen in the east-southeast. Saturn will ride across the southern sky throughout the night, among the faint stars of Pisces and Aquarius, but a little closer to Pisces. Saturn’s...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: In the northern sky at dusk, Ursa Major, the Big Dipper contained within it, is nosing toward the horizon, but only to skirt it, before rising into the northeast after midnight. This and its companion, the Little Bear, also known as the Little Dipper, are all...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A little after 1:00 AM, night owls can see the Gemini Twins, somewhat horizontally oriented, rise just east of northeast. Betwixt them in the Waning Crescent Moon. Just beneath, and rising last, is Jupiter. All will continue to rise into northeastern sky,...
