by FLEK Admin | Sep 26, 2024 | NightSky
Today: At around 8:15 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, impervious to the water the falls from the bucket of Aquarius. Saturn’s orbit of 29 and a...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 25, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The waning Moon continues its late-night tour, a fat waning Crescent rising just after midnight, to the lower left of Mars. Yet the Moon has found another companion, the star Pollux shining to its left, the brighter and lower of the pair of stars called the...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 24, 2024 | NightSky
Today: It will again require a late night, with the fun starting after midnight, when Mars again rises roughly in the northeast. The First Quarter Moon joins the fun, just above the brightening, reddish Mars. The Moon will rise high in the east throughout the night,...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 23, 2024 | NightSky
Today: By 10:30 PM this evening, a waning Moon, just one day short of its Last Quarter, climbs into the northeast just minutes ahead of our largest planet, Jupiter. Size alone helps Jupiter to rank as the second brightest planet we can see, just behind Venus. The Moon...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 22, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Autumnal Equinox, the first day of fall by the calendar, occurs today at 12:44 Greenwich Mean Time, or 8:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time. Sunrise tables show the length of the day about 12 hours and 10 minutes. Although the equinox is supposed to represent...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 21, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Late this evening, you can see Jupiter rising in the northeast at around 10:30 PM. Quite late, just before midnight, true night owls can wait to see Mars follow in Jupiter’s footsteps, as it also rises in the northeast, embedded betwixt the stars of Gemini, the...
