by FLEK Admin | Jul 3, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Mercury has reached its maximum separation from the Sun, known as its Greatest Eastern Elongation. Over the past 10 days, Mercury has been swinging from behind the Sun, and is now heading toward us. Eventually it sweeps closer to the Sun, making it all but...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 3, 2025 | NightSky
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by FLEK Admin | Jul 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: With no Moonlight to compete with tonight, the two brightest stars in our summer skies – Arcturus, high in the south, and Vega, high in the east – guide you to a much fainter star group, Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. Look one third of the way from...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 2, 2025 | NightSky
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by FLEK Admin | Jul 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Draco, the Dragon is not as well known as its neighbors – the Big and Little Dippers, or Big and Little Bears – but it is a beautiful pattern to find in the sky. Look between the two Dippers to see a thin line of faint stars that hooks half-way...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: I know talking about Mercury is problematic, but assuming that one could see it within a few minutes after sunset, there’s then quite a string from there through Regulus, Mars, The Moon, and Spica. But then again, the projection of the sky that’s done via...
