by FLEK Admin | Nov 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At 7:50 PM you can see a faint cluster of stars called The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, appearing a little less than halfway up in the east. To locate them more easily, you can first identify the bright and orange-red star Aldebaran, which appears due east, and...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Just as the clock strikes midnight, the Last Quarter Moon rises above a level eastern horizon, later if hills and trees are in the way. Above this half-illuminated Moon, the brightest star in Leo, the Lion, Regulus, struggles to be seen through the Moon’s...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 11, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The mid-winter stars rise earlier each evening, as the Earth makes its appointed journey around the Sun. By 9:30 PM, the familiar stars of Orion are in the east, and are joined by the bright star Procyon, just rising at 9:45 PM EST. This is the dominant star in...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 10, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Big Dipper runs as low as it gets along the northern horizon. At 7:30 PM EST, the right edge of the “bowl” of the Dipper is exactly above north. Follow the line formed by these two stars, the “pointer stars”, and they will guide you...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Late this evening, the waning Gibbous Moon, one day from its Last Quarter, works its way above the east-northeast horizon in the company of Jupiter to its lower right, somewhat subdued by the Moon’s glare. You’ll find the pair one third of the way...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Vega, the brightest star visible this evening, starts this night high in the west at 6 o’clock, and takes its time lowering through the northwest all evening, not setting until 2 o’clock tomorrow morning. Vega is bright, in part, because it is one...
