by FLEK Admin | Aug 22, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The dark skies near the New Moon reveal the splendors of the Milky Way arched over the top of the sky. Directly overhead, notice there are lighter and darker patches of light within the star fields of the Milky Way. The stars are evenly distributed, but vast...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: In this evening’s twilight, look to the west-southwest, and you’ll see a tall and nearly isosceles triangle. First dangling low on the horizon, and nearly due west, is Mars. Farther toward the southwest shines the bluish/white star Spica. Much higher in the...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Low in the east-northeast, tomorrow morning holds a curious view for early risers. A thin Crescent Moon will rise above the horizon at around 4:15 AM. Twenty minutes later, the planet Mercury will do the same, appearing just below the moon. Their best view...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers tomorrow morning are treated to a thinning Crecent Moon surrounded by celestial treasures. Immediately left of the Moon is Pollux, the lower of the twin stars of Gemini, with the other, Castor, above. Venus glows brightly to the Moon’s lower...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The early morning skies are getting crowded! From 4 to 5 o’clock, the waning Crescent Moon presides one quarter of the way up in the east, above Jupiter to its lower left, and the even brighter Venus, farther to the lower left. To the left of the planets,...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Andromeda Galaxy is the only distant galaxy we can see with our own eyes. In the next few nights look in the northeast, just below the Milky Way, and about one third of the way up from the horizon near 9:15 PM EDT. It appears as a small, oval smudge of...
