by FLEK Admin | Apr 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The brilliant star in the southwest to the left of Orion’s belt is Sirius, the Dog Star. As it lowers closer to the horizon, notice that as it twinkles, it flashes many colors. Its light is bending on its way through our atmosphere, giving us pin-point...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: While the Moon, just one day past Full, continues to bathe the skies with moonlight, the western skies play host to several bright objects capable of competing with the lunar glow. As the last twilight fades, Jupiter is due west, one third of the way above the...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: This evening, almost exactly as the Sun sets, the Full “Pink” Moon rises in the east. The Moon is perfectly Full less than an hour later, at 8:22 PM, at which point you migh glimpse the steely-blue star Spica, just barely to the Moon’s upper...
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,...
