by FLEK Admin | Dec 23, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Rising at 7:00 PM EST this evening is the first of the two “dog stars”. Procyon literally means to “precede”, as in preceding the Canis Major, the Great Dog. Procyon is the brightest star in the Little Dog, leading the way one half hour...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 22, 2025 | NightSky
Today: The Summer Triangle is slowly bidding farewell as it rests in the west-northwest, its three bright stars spanning the Milky Way, or the “Great River in the Sky” as it’s known in the Orient. Our galaxy arches from the west up to the top and...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Winter Solstice occurs this morning at 10:03 AM EST, with our shortest day and longest night of the year. At the start of this longest night, you might catch the waxing Crescent Moon along the southwestern horizon, before the moon chases the sun below the...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: On the next clear evening near 6:30 PM, crossing the zenith you’ll perhaps find the Andromeda Galaxy, the most distant object viewable with the un-aided eye, but quite a challenge. Binoculars will help, and show a bit more, but its distance of 2.5 million...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 19, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Tonight’s New Moon is ideal for viewing the signature “W” shape of the constellation Cassiopeia, the Queen, surrounded by the star fields of the Milky Way, due north at 6:45 PM EST, and nearly at the top of the sky. The Queen always appears on the...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 18, 2025 | NightSky
Today: One of the brightest stars in the sky, and part of the Summer Triangle, Vega, is flickering in the northwest by dark. Vega gets its name from the German “Wega”, which came from “Al Waki”, Arabic for “the falling or swooping...
