by FLEK Admin | May 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the dusk fades at 8:30 PM, the Crescent Moon shines barely to the right of Castor, the rightmost of the Gemini Twins. Below and a little farther to the right, in the west-northwest, shines Jupiter, bounded by the horns of Taurus. Jupiter and the horns of...
by FLEK Admin | May 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today is May Day, and is known in the Celtic tradition as Beltane, marking the traditional half-way point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. These mid-points of the seasons are called “cross-quarter days”, as they are exactly...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Around 8:15 this evening, the waxing Crescent Moon emerges from the twilight, about one third of the way up in western sky. About this time, Jupiter comes into view, below it, a fine pairing that settles to about one quarter of the way up in the west-northwest...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers should find a low, level horizon to the east and southeast, if they hope to catch of glimpse of the ringed-world Saturn rising in the brightening twilight, quite low, but made a little easier by the presence of the far-brighter Venus. Once you spot...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Barely past new, the barest of a crescent Moon will follow the setting sun toward the horizon in the west-northwest. Appearing shortly after, above the Moon, will be the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. Although they are faint, and not easy to see in the fading...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Due south this evening at 8:35 PM, the brightest star in Leo, the Lion, Regulus reigns above a large but much less prominent constellation, that of the Water Snake, named Hydra. The snake’s head appears as a collection of stars half-way between Regulus,...
