by FLEK Admin | May 3, 2025 | NightSky
Today: When looking toward the west this evening as the twilight dims, you’ll see that the moon is no longer next to Castor of the Gemini Twins, but has shifted up and to the left, appearing within the constellation Cancer, and immediately to the right of Mars. Mars...
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...