by FLEK Admin | Mar 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Leo the Lion climbs higher into the evening skies, with its bright star, Regulus, the “heart” of Leo, nearly half way up in the east-southeast by 8:30 PM. Regulus appears to be younger than it really is. Astronomers discovered that a companion dwarf...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: You can watch the waning Gibbous Moon lift into the east this evening just before 10 o’clock, led by a fairly bright, bluish-white star called Spica, the only bright star in Virgo. Through the night they progress higher through the southeast, cresting due...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Ides of March meant the middle of March to the Romans, and specifically the night of the Full Moon, because their calendar was a lunar calendar. The Full Moon from last night would actually be this month’s “ides”, however, today’s...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s skies are lit up by the Full “Sap” Moon, sometimes called the Full “Worm” Moon, thought – technically, the Moon was Full during last night’s total lunar eclipse. It may take a few to several weeks before we...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A total eclipse of the Full Moon will occur tonight, for the first time since November 8, 2022. The partial phase of the eclipse will occur after midnight, at 1:09 AM EDT on the 14th. The totality phase begins at 2:26 AM and ends at 3:32 AM; when the partial...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, sparkles in the south as twilight fades by 8 o’clock, sliding into the southwest through the course of the evening, one of the first stars out as twilight fades. Its brilliance is due, in part to its relative...
