by FLEK Admin | Feb 22, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Facing south at around 7:40 reveals a host of bright objects along or near the ecliptic. In the east appears the star Regulus, within the constellation Leo. High in sky, and just east of south appears Mars, still in the company of Castor and Pollux. Just west...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: George Washington’s actual birthday (not the holiday) would have seen the same stars in the same places in 1732, though the planets would have been different. Thanks to modern computer calculations, we know that Venus and Saturn were amazingly close in...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Night owls can see the Moon, just one day past its Last Quarter, rise in the southeast near 2:30 AM tomorrow morning. Just to its upper left will appear the red star Antares, the brightest star within the constellation Scorpius. As they climb higher, though...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: On the next clear night, it should be quite easy to find the brightest star – the North Star, right? No! As you scan the skies, tonight our brightest star emerges from the twilight in the southeast near 6:00 PM, and will be due south at 8:35 PM. You are...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The waning Moon doesn’t rise until a few minutes after midnight, allowing dark evening skies to reveal the splendors of the Milky Way arched over the top of the sky. Early this evening, in the midst of the Milky Way and directly overhead near 7:20 PM, the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 17, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today marks the anniversary of the discovery of Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh was examining pictures taken through the telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona in January, 1930, over a period of days. One of the “stars” in the image moved while the stars remained...
