by FLEK Admin | Jan 28, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Looking overhead at 8:35 PM this evening, you’ll find the fourth brightest star we can see from our northern latitudes, the outstanding Capella. Below Capella, Orion is unmistakable, while the red star Aldebaran sparkles to Orion’s right, and to the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 27, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Gibbous Moon, two days past Full, climbs into the east-northeast by 7 o’clock. Just to the right, and a bit higher than the Moon, the bluish-white star Regulus emerges, with the pair close to one quarter of the way up, due east, near 8:30 PM. They...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 26, 2024 | NightSky
Today: With the Moon just one day past Full, can you make out the “Man in the Moon” – created by the darker regions of the Moon? Another common figure is a rabbit or hare, with two long ears at the top, a body curved down the left side, and feet near...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 25, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s skies feature the Full “Wolf” Moon, so named by Native Americans for the wolves that would gather outside villages in the deep of winter. It sits well below the Twins of Gemini, and well to the left of the bright star Procyon. It has...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 24, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Moon is one day from being completely Full, as it climbs into the east-northeast during the fading twilight. By 7:15 PM, the Moon has climbed more than one third of the way up in the east, directly below the two stars called the Twins of Gemini, with Castor...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 23, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Venus is now in its slow transition into the Sun’s earlier morning arrival, gaining 10 minutes since the first of the year. Venus lingers low in the southeast through mid-February, when it briefly encounters Mars, and then spends spring and most of the...
