by FLEK Admin | Jun 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The earliest sunrises of the year take place this week, before the longest days of the year. The Earth is farther from the Sun in June, causing it to orbit a little slower. However, it still spins on its axis at the same speed. That means it turns and faces the...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: There might still be a hint of twilight along the west-northwest horizon by 9:45 this evening, as you look, about one eighth of the way above a low, level horizon, for a pair of stars. They rank among the brighter stars, and look so similar that you can see why...
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:...
