by FLEK Admin | Mar 2, 2025 | 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 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Venus has started its decent toward the horizon from its peak last month. Even so, it is well placed for a delightful conjunction with the slender waxing Crescent Moon in the western twilight this evening. They emerge between 5:45 and 6:00 PM, when Venus shines...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Venus has started its decent toward the horizon from its peak last month. Even so, it is well placed for a delightful conjunction with the slender waxing Crescent Moon in the western twilight this evening. They emerge between 5:45 and 6:00 PM, when Venus shines...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s New Moon will facilitate the detection the most distant object human eyes can see, the Andromeda galaxy, a faint smudge of light, one half of the way above the west-northwest horizon, as twilight ends after 6:40 PM. It appears at the hip of the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Milky Way is showing off in the dark, moonless evening skies, arching from southeast and into the south, climbing above Orion and nearly overhead. It then shimmers down toward the northwestern horizon. During March, the Milky Way, and Orion, ease lower into...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Looking due east at 6:25 this evening, Leo the Lion begins to climb above the horizon, with the Twins of Gemini much higher. About halfway between them, search for a faint sprinkling of stars, called the “Beehive”, a swarm of stars in the faint constellation...