by FLEK Admin | Apr 23, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s full moon of April is also known as the “Pink” Moon. This is a great time to see one of the Moon’s prominent craters, Tycho. Binoculars show it near the bottom as a hub for a series of lines radiating outward, or “rays”,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 22, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The increasing light of the Moon, while spoiling the Lyrid Meteor Shower, leaves the brighter stars to admire, including Arcturus, emerging from the twilight, due east, about one third of the way up from the horizon at 9:30 this evening. Its pale orange color...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 21, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The predicted peak of the annual Lyrids Meteor Shower in the hours after midnight tonight, as they Earth passes through the debris of Comet Thatcher, last seen in 1861, but not due to return until 2283. However, any increasing frequency of visible meteors will...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Looking east-southeast this evening, a waxing Gibbous Moon appears next to the head of Virgo. Between 8:15 and 8:45 PM, as we transition from twilight to dark, you’ll see Virgo’s brightest star, Spica, well to the lower left, about one quarter of...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2024 | NightSky
Today: As the bright winter stars of Orion retire in the west, two lonely bright stars rise toward their summer prominence in the skies in the east. Looking high in the northeast to find the Big Dipper, and follow the “arc” of its handle lower and to the right,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 18, 2024 | NightSky
Today: As the last of the twilight fades after 8:45, look high into the southwestern skies, where the celestial Lion, Leo, appears to be sitting on the waxing Gibbous Moon, progressing to due south, about two thirds of the way above the horizon, at 10 o’clock....
