by FLEK Admin | Jul 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The second brightest star in the summer sky, Vega, appears nearly overhead at midnight. From the zenith, lower your focus into the east, still quite high, where another bright star catches your attention, Deneb, highlighting the tail feathers of the...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 8, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight near midnight, the bluish-white star Vega is nearly overhead, while the brilliant pale-orange Arcturus is about half way up from the horizon in the west. Between them, about two thirds of the way from Arcturus up to Vega, a bow-tie shaped pattern of...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Today is the “seventh day of the seventh Moon” – moons being months – and is the traditional day for cultures in the Far East to celebrate the story of the Goddess of Weaving and the Handsome Farmer, more familiar to us as the Summer Triangle, directly overhead...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Moon again appears in the south this evening, but it has shifted away from Libra, and much closer to Scorpius. The Moon lies very close to a start with Scorpius, the star know alternatives as Fang, or Pi Scorpii. In fact the Moon will move directly in front...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 5, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Quite prominent in the south this evening, the Waxing Gibbous Moon will appear to be hitching a ride within the constellation Libra, Libra’s scales perhaps a little out of balance, since the constellation looks like it’s lying on it’s side. The Moon will set in...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 4, 2025 | NightSky
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