by FLEK Admin | Jun 11, 2025 | NightSky
Today: June’s Full “Strawberry” Moon might not be red, but it will seeming chasing Antares across the sky, starting as darkness follows the twilight by 10 o’clock. While the Moon starts out low in the southeast, Antares is already a little...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 10, 2025 | NightSky
Today: While the nearly Full Moon bathes the night in moonlight from its path, very low over the southern horizon, look in the opposite direction, toward the north, for a curious object, even closer to the horizon. The star Capella, among the brightest stellar...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Having moved on from Spica a few days before, the Moon is now nearly full, and is nearing Antares, a bright red star that will appear to the left, a slight below the brilliant Moon. Known as the heart of its surrounding constellation, Scorpius, Antares appears...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: This evening finds the Waxing Gibbous Moon trying to tip the scales of Libra. Looking on from the southeast is the red star Antares, within the constellation Scorpius. The two leftmost stars within Libra were once considered part neighboring Scorpius:...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Just as full darkness settles in by 10 o’clock, look due north and half way up in the sky to find Polaris, the North Star. Now look above it, and slightly to the left, where a pair of medium bright stars represent “north stars” from a bygone...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Night owls can see a pale yellow point of light rising in the east-southeast at 2 o’clock, better seen after 3 AM, our distant planetary cousin, Saturn. Much closer, and much brighter as well as more intense in its yellow hue, Venus will rise about an...
