by FLEK Admin | Dec 1, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Venus continues to be majestic in the morning skies, rising before 3:30 AM, and seen along side the bright star Spica to its right. Although Spica shines as the 11th brightest star in the heavens, it appears 100 times fainter than Venus. Through the month,...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 30, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Due east this evening at 6:50 PM will be a faint cluster of stars called the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. To see them easier, look slightly to their side (either one), and their faint light hits a more sensitive part of your eye. In Japan they are known as...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 29, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Tomorrow morning, Venus rises a half hour later than earlier this month, but continues its splendid display, joined from 5 to 6 o’clock by the bright, though much fainter star, Spica to its right. Spica marks the hips of Virgo, the Maiden, just returning...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 28, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The Big Dipper is as low as it gets along the northern horizon. At 6:20 PM EST, the right edge of the “bowl” of the Dipper is exactly above north. Follow the line formed by these two stars, the “pointer stars”, and they will guide you up...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 27, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The Moon was full early this morning, known as the Full “Beaver” Moon. It gets its name from the Algonquin tribes of the northeast, though its meaning is uncertain. It could be the time of trapping beavers for their furs for the winter ahead, or...
by FLEK Admin | Nov 26, 2023 | NightSky
Today: As twilight arrives, the nearly-Full Moon rises in the east-northeast, becoming Full early tomorrow morning, directly opposite the Sun. Like most Full Moons, this one passes just outside the Earth’s shadow, which means there won’t be a Lunar...
