by FLEK Admin | Dec 25, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Christmas’s connection to astronomy dates back to our earliest European ancestors, knowing that the longest nights of the year would slowly give way to increasing amounts of light and warmth from the Sun. Numerous stone structures, including Stonehenge,...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 24, 2025 | NightSky
Today: This year’s Christmas Eve sky features a decorative waxing Crescent Moon emerging one quarter of the way up in the southwest in the late moments of twilight between 5 and 5:30, while the western skies give us a lovely view of an out-of-season pattern, the...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 23, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Rising at 7:00 PM EST this evening is the first of the two “dog stars”. Procyon literally means to “precede”, as in preceding the Canis Major, the Great Dog. Procyon is the brightest star in the Little Dog, leading the way one half hour...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 22, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Summer Triangle is slowly bidding farewell as it rests in the west-northwest, its three bright stars spanning the Milky Way, or the “Great River in the Sky” as it’s known in the Orient. Our galaxy arches from the west up to the top and...
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...
