by FLEK Admin | Dec 2, 2025 | NightSky
Today: During the next 10 days, the morning twilight welcomes one of our better views o Mercury, from about 6 until 6:25, low in the southeast. Mercury passed between the Sun and Earth November 20th, and is now curving out toward its maximum separation from the Sun on...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 1, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon continues to grow larger in the evenings, but it won’t interfere with some interesting planet viewing. Saturn, cresting due south this evening at 6:50, will be joined about a half hour later by the even brighter Jupiter, rising in the...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Orion has been rising earlier and earlier all month. With a level view to the east-northeast, the constellation is fully risen by 8 PM, with the belt above the horizon by 7:30, while on November first this took until around 9 o’clock. By mid January the belt...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As the evening twilight fades between 5 and 5:30, the waxing Gibbous Moon is apparent in the southeast. To its right, nestled among the faint stars between the constellation Aquarius to the right, and Picses to the left, glows the planet Saturn, famous for its...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Looking due east, two-thirds of the way up from the horizon at 5:30 PM, the middle star of Andromeda marks her waist, joined by a star of similar brightness to the upper right for her head, and another marking her foot to the lower left. Follow two fainter...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Between 5:30 and 6 PM, look about halfway up in the northeastern sky. Here lies a constellation within which Perseus hold he head of the Medusa in his left hand; in the Medusa’s right eye shines the binary star Algol, “The Ghoul”. Between 7:44...
