by FLEK Admin | Dec 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Winter Solstice occurs this morning at 10:03 AM EST, with our shortest day and longest night of the year. At the start of this longest night, you might catch the waxing Crescent Moon along the southwestern horizon, before the moon chases the sun below the...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: On the next clear evening near 6:30 PM, crossing the zenith you’ll perhaps find the Andromeda Galaxy, the most distant object viewable with the un-aided eye, but quite a challenge. Binoculars will help, and show a bit more, but its distance of 2.5 million...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s New Moon is ideal for viewing the signature “W” shape of the constellation Cassiopeia, the Queen, surrounded by the star fields of the Milky Way, due north at 6:45 PM EST, and nearly at the top of the sky. The Queen always appears on the...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: One of the brightest stars in the sky, and part of the Summer Triangle, Vega, is flickering in the northwest by dark. Vega gets its name from the German “Wega”, which came from “Al Waki”, Arabic for “the falling or swooping...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Great Square of Pegasus, due south and very high as twilight fades near 5:30 this evening, will help locate the beautiful Princess Andromeda. The top left corner of the square is also the head of the Princess, with two other bright stars to the left forming...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: One of the outstandingly bright stars in the skies passes nearly overhead tonight. Capella is dazzling in the east-northeast, about half way from the horizon to the zenith at 7:00 PM. By 11:30 PM, the 4th brightest star we can see from the northern hemisphere...
