by FLEK Admin | Feb 24, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Full “Snow” Moon rises about 10 minutes past sunset near 5:45 this evening, in the east-northeast, and tracks high across the skies all night long tonight. This Full Moon also goes by the name The Hunger Moon, the Trapper’s Moon, and for...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 23, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Moon is just one day shy of Full as it rises in the company of Regulus, the brightest star in Leo, the Lion. The pair emerges in the twilight by 5 o’clock, and are due east two hours later. They crest high in the south just before midnight, and then...
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....
