by FLEK Admin | Feb 22, 2024 | NightSky
Today: George Washington’s actual birthday (not the holiday) would have seen the same stars in the same places, though the planets would have been different. Thanks to modern computer calculations, we know that Venus and Saturn were amazingly close in the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 21, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Venus struggles to remain in view for the morning coffee crew, but tomorrow morning it would be worth taking one last look. You might use binoculars, or a spotting scope to find Mars, just to the lower right of Venus, during a narrow window from 6 o’clock...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 20, 2024 | NightSky
Today: A growing, bright waxing Gibbous Moon starts the evening about halfway up in the east, climbing even higher through the darkening evening skies. With the darkness, a pair of stars are revealed to be the Moon’s companions tonight, the Twins of Gemini. Just...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 19, 2024 | NightSky
Today: At 7:10 this evening, looking straight up, a bright star marks the zenith, very top of the sky. Capella is the fourth brightest star we can see, though it is past its prime. Astronomers estimate it was the brightest star in the sky some 200,000 years ago....
by FLEK Admin | Feb 18, 2024 | 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...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 17, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Orion boasts a fine collection of bright stars, including the bluish-white beacon to the lower right of his three belt stars. Rigel, meaning “left foot”, is classified as a blue supergiant, estimated to be 860 light years, and emitting approximately 200...
