by FLEK Admin | Apr 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A wide, waxing Crescent Moon appears to the upper right of the giant planet Jupiter this evening, nearly two-thirds of the way up in the bright twilight near 7:30, settling to half way up, and closer to due west near the end of twilight an hour later....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A wide, waxing Crescent Moon appears to the upper right of the giant planet Jupiter this evening, nearly two-thirds of the way up in the bright twilight near 7:30, settling to half way up, and closer to due west near the end of twilight an hour later....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: April opens with a visual challenge in the western skies. A waxing Crescent Moon appears just above the star cluster, the Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades, due west, one third of the way up at 8:15, settling lower and to the right through the evening. The...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: April opens with a visual challenge in the western skies. A waxing Crescent Moon appears just above the star cluster, the Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades, due west, one third of the way up at 8:15, settling lower and to the right through the evening. The...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 31, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Is March going out like a lion? Leo the Lion continues to climb higher in the March evening skies. Its brightest star – Regulus – is more than half way above the southeast horizon at 8:30 PM EDT. Looking above and left of Regulus, the stars form a curve like...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The line of Orion’s Belt stars, extended to the right, points to the red star Aldebaran, the red eye of Taurus, the Bull. Aldebaran is 9th brightest star we can see, relatively nearby at a distance of 65 light years. It is a Red Giant star, more than 40 times...
