by FLEK Admin | Jul 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Delta Aquariid Meteor shower is near its broad peak in activity, lasting from mid-July to mid-August. Alongside it this year is the Alpha Capricornids, its meteors less frequent but tending to move more slowly across the sky. The Moon won’t be an...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The North Star, also known as Polaris, remains anchored halfway up from the northern horizon, never moving noticeably, though, technically, it does make a very small circle as the Earth rotates on its axis. The circle is a little more than one degree, or twice...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Low in west by 9:20 PM, you can catch the Crescent Moon and Mars in close proximity, with the red/orange Mars just the right of the Moon. As they emerge from the twilight, the two will be diving quickly toward the horizon, disappearing below it a little after...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Milky Way arches high across the eastern skies in the evening, extending down to the north, where it appears dimmer, and toward the south, glowing noticeably brighter, home to the center of our Galaxy. The Milky Way swings overhead through the course of the...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the sun sets just before 8 PM, the Waxing Crescent Moon will be due west. By 10 PM, the twilight should be dim enough for the star Regulus to be visible just below and right of The Moon. Looking back toward the west and southwest, The Moon and Regulus align...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 25, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As twilight now falls just a little earlier than the beginning of the month, you’ll find the skies dark enough to catch a view of the bluish-white star Spica, low in the southwest. Spica, translated as a “spike of wheat”, sits on the hips of...
