by FLEK Admin | Apr 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today marks the anniversary of the stunning, Total Solar Eclipse that swept across the US and southeast Canada, right over northern VT and NH, last year in 2024. The weather cooperated surprisingly well, considering clouds dominate the skies on 4 out of 5 days...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the last of the twilight fades after 8:30, look higher into the southeastern skies, where the celestial Lion, Leo, appears about to swallow the waxing Gibbous Moon, progressing to due south, about two thirds of the way above the horizon, at 10 o’clock....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Rising in the east-southeast as twilight yields to darkness, a steely-blue star rises in the east-southeast, the brightest star in Virgo, the Virgin, Spica. One way to find it is to follow the “arc” of the Big Dipper’s handle, high in the...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 5, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The First Quarter Moon makes its monthly appearance near the Twins of Gemini, but this month enjoys the added feature of the planet Mars, the bright, orange object below the Moon. The Twins stars Pollux, on the left, and Castor, on the right, mark the heads of...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 4, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Corona Borealis, or the Northern Crown, rises into the east-northeast, one third of the way from the lower left of Arcturus, and to the upper right of Vega, just rising in the northeast. Its middle star, alternatively named Alpheca or, more appropriately Gemma,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 3, 2025 | NightSky
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