by FLEK Admin | Jul 2, 2025 | NightSky
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by FLEK Admin | Jul 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Draco, the Dragon is not as well known as its neighbors – the Big and Little Dippers, or Big and Little Bears – but it is a beautiful pattern to find in the sky. Look between the two Dippers to see a thin line of faint stars that hooks half-way...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: I know talking about Mercury is problematic, but assuming that one could see it within a few minutes after sunset, there’s then quite a string from there through Regulus, Mars, The Moon, and Spica. But then again, the projection of the sky that’s done via...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Big Dipper is beginning to drop a little into the northwestern skies from its position at the top of the sky in May. A legend from the Seneca Tribe tells us that the bowl of the dipper is really a bear, with the closest star to the bowl a hunter with a bow...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: This evening it’s all about the Moon and Mars. As the glow of the evening twilight dims after 9:30, our satellite very nearly obscures (occults) the Red Planet, the pair one quarter of the way up in the western sky. Mars will appear nearly at the top point of...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The star Antares, the “heart” of Scorpio, the Scorpion, shines due south, only one quarter of the way above the horizon at 10:50 PM, shimmering a bright orangish-red. Antares was one of the four Royal Stars in Persian astronomy, marking the position of the Sun...
