by FLEK Admin | Apr 11, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The waxing Gibbous Moon is just one day from being Full, known is April 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...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 10, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The planet Mars is obviously on the move, sliding to a position exactly even with the Twin stars of Gemini this evening, high in the southwest, forming a curious “belt” of three stars in a row, mimicing the more famous Orion’s Belt, which...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 9, 2025 | 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 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today marks the anniversary of the stunning, Total Solar Eclipse that swept across the US and southeast Canada, right over northern VT and NH, last year in 2024. The weather cooperated surprisingly well, considering clouds dominate the skies on 4 out of 5 days...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the last of the twilight fades after 8:30, look higher into the southeastern skies, where the celestial Lion, Leo, appears about to swallow the waxing Gibbous Moon, progressing to due south, about two thirds of the way above the horizon, at 10 o’clock....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Rising in the east-southeast as twilight yields to darkness, a steely-blue star rises in the east-southeast, the brightest star in Virgo, the Virgin, Spica. One way to find it is to follow the “arc” of the Big Dipper’s handle, high in the...
