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...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 25, 2025 | NightSky
Today: By 8:30 PM this evening, the “twin” stars of Gemini appear quite high in the south-southeast, two-thirds of the way up from the horizon, and ride very high across the southern skies. Pollux, a bit brighter and on the lower left, and Castor, on the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 24, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Mercury and Saturn will appear very close together just shortly after sunset, and right along the horizon, just south of west, at 6:15. With difficulty, they will be viewable only for a matter of minutes, until the pair sets at 6:30. For ideal viewing you would...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 23, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Retrograde motion of Mars ends tonight, which started late last year as the faster Earth passed Mars in our respective orbits. We are now far enough past Mars that its direct, west to east motion resumes. Forming a triangle with the bright Twin stars of Gemini,...
