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...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At 9 o’clock this evening, due south and two-thirds above the southern horizon, a tiny patch of starlight sits between the stars called the Twins of Gemini toward the south-southwest, and the bluish-white star marking the heart of Leo the Lion, Regulus....
by FLEK Admin | Mar 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tomorrow, the Moon partially eclipses the sun, starting here in New England as the Sun is rising, wrapping northeast through Greenland, and continuing across western and northern Europe. Here, the sun rises already eclipsed, the Moon covering a bit more than 50...
