by FLEK Admin | Jan 4, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Night owls might find the pairing of the Last Quarter Moon and the bluish-white star Spica a “hoot” in the hours after midnight. Rising in the east-southeast by 1:25 AM, they take their time climbing into the east. They continue to due south near...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 3, 2024 | NightSky
Today: One of the most prolific meteor showers of the year often goes unnoticed by northern observers. The Quadrantid Meteor Shower produces as many as 100 meteors per hour, but only during a short window, this year midnight until 6:00 AM. The bright Last Quarter Moon...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Today the Earth is at perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, measuring some 147,054,707 km, or 91,375,559 miles. That “slightly” nearer Sun reflects off a waning Moon as it rises late this evening, about 11:15 PM, just one day from its Last...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The first night of the new year features the great Orion climbing higher into the southeast, accompanied by his hunting dogs. Orion rises to one third of the way up in the southeast by 8 o’clock, with his three Belt stars angled to the lower left. There,...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 31, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Venus is ready to open 2024 with some interesting views, starting tomorrow as it rises near 4:30, climbing a bit higher by 6 o’clock, to be joined to the lower right by Acrab, the star on the left shoulder of the Scorpion. By 6:30, as twilight creeps in,...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 30, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Harry Potter in the sky? Looking in the southeast at 8:30 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...
