by FLEK Admin | Mar 22, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Spring brings a shortening of the nights that will continue until the Summer Solstice, on June 21st, making viewing less favorable for the evening winter constellations, such as Orion. This evening, Orion will appear a third of the way up in the southwest at...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 21, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Orion is an easy target, even on a moonlit night. Tonight, the lack of moonlight might give you an opportunity to see a fainter feature of our winter Giant. Look below his three belt stars, where a fainter line marks his sword. The very end of the sword is a...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 20, 2026 | NightSky
Today: The Vernal or Spring Equinox marks the calendar arrival of Spring early this morning at 10:46 AM EDT, when the Sun is positioned directly above the Earth’s equator. Although the word equinox means “equal night”, the atmosphere bends the...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 19, 2026 | NightSky
Today: The line of Orion’s Belt stars, extended to the right, points to the red star Aldebaran, the red eye of Taurus, the Bull. Aldebaran is 9th brightest star we can see, relatively nearby at a distance of 65 light years. It is a Red Giant star, more than 40 times...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 18, 2026 | NightSky
Today: At 9:45 this evening, due south and two-thirds above the southern horizon, a tiny patch of starlight sits between the stars called the Twins of Gemini toward the south-southwest, and the bluish-white star marking the heart of Leo the Lion, Regulus. This faint,...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 17, 2026 | NightSky
Today: The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, sparkles in the south as twilight fades by 8:00 PM, 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 closeness, only...
