by FLEK Admin | Dec 29, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tomorrow morning, from 6:15 to 6:45 AM, the morning twilight offers some fleeting glimpses before they all disappear with the rising Sun: The summer stars of Scorpius, the Scorpion return to the skies, first with his claws, and then a splendid encounter of the...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 28, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Harry Potter in the sky? Looking in the southeast after 7:15 this evening, we see the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, rising. It is known as the Dog Star, and in the Harry Potter books, his god-father Sirius turns into a dog. Likewise, Sirius’s sister is...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 27, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Look for the First Quarter Moon, a little more than half way above the horizon, due south at 6 o’clock this evening, which is the direction in which the First Quarter Moon always appears. Because the Moon is one “quarter” of the way through...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 26, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon, one day shy of its First Quarter, does not appear shy at all in its cozy approach to Saturn, somewhat subdued, but visible to the Moon’s lower left, the closest encounter of the Moon to any planet this month. The pair appears due south by 5:15,...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 25, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Christmas’s connection to astronomy dates back to our earliest European ancestors, knowing that the longest nights of the year would slowly give way to increasing amounts of light and warmth from the Sun. Numerous stone structures, including Stonehenge,...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 24, 2025 | NightSky
Today: This year’s Christmas Eve sky features a decorative waxing Crescent Moon emerging one quarter of the way up in the southwest in the late moments of twilight between 5 and 5:30, while the western skies give us a lovely view of an out-of-season pattern, the...
