by FLEK Admin | Apr 30, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Around 8:15 this evening, the waxing Crescent Moon emerges from the twilight, about one third of the way up in western sky. About this time, Jupiter comes into view, below it, a fine pairing that settles to about one quarter of the way up in the west-northwest...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Early risers should find a low, level horizon to the east and southeast, if they hope to catch of glimpse of the ringed-world Saturn rising in the brightening twilight, quite low, but made a little easier by the presence of the far-brighter Venus. Once you spot...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Barely past new, the barest of a crescent Moon will follow the setting sun toward the horizon in the west-northwest. Appearing shortly after, above the Moon, will be the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. Although they are faint, and not easy to see in the fading...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Due south this evening at 8:35 PM, the brightest star in Leo, the Lion, Regulus reigns above a large but much less prominent constellation, that of the Water Snake, named Hydra. The snake’s head appears as a collection of stars half-way between Regulus,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: High in the southwest this evening, as twilight fades after 9:00 PM, you’ll find the faint constellation Cancer, the Crab. While we associate Cancer the Crab with summer, due to its astrological connections, April is a wonderful time to see it. Look...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 25, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A good view to the north gives a terrific chance to see the Queen Cassiopeia’s chair or throne lowering toward the northern horizon. She is facing to the right, looking at her husband, King Cepheus. In six months, her throne will be high above, but upside-down....
