by FLEK Admin | Oct 19, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Guess who’s rising at midnight, about one hour before the waning Moon returns to the skies? The Winter champion Orion lifts into the east and southeast for night owls, tracking to due south near 4:30 tomorrow morning, and then heads into the southwest...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 18, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Between 6:45 and 7:00 PM this evening, you’ll get a brief glimpse of the departing star Antares, the “heart” of Scorpio, the Scorpion, low in the southwest, sparkling red to the right of a waxing Crescent Moon. Antares slips into the...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 17, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Our dark evenings favor star gazers, especially attempting to find fainter objects. One such item is the constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin, appearing like a coma-shaped pattern of stars, very high and due south at 7:45 PM. Using the lowest star in the Summer...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 16, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The star Capella, one of the ten brightest in the sky, is exactly northeast at 9:15 PM EDT, occasionally flickering colors of red, blue and green as its brilliant light is broken into random segments of a rainbow by the Earth’s atmosphere. Tuesday: Our...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 15, 2023 | NightSky
Today: At mid-month, Jupiter continues to rise 4 minutes earlier each evening. Why such a specific amount? Jupiter’s orbit of 11.6 years around the Sun means it moves very slowly. Instead, it is the steady motion of the Earth in its orbit that shifts our view of...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 14, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The most distant object visible to human eyes without the help of binoculars or telescopes is the Andromeda Galaxy, more than 2.4 million light years away. You’ll find it very high in the east about 10:15 PM EDT, just above the middle star in the...
