by FLEK Admin | Feb 8, 2024 | NightSky
Today: By 8:30 PM this evening, the “twin” stars of Gemini appear quite high in the east-southeast, two-thirds of the way up from the horizon, and ride very high across the southern skies. Pollux, a bit brighter and on the lower left, and Castor, on the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 7, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Orion is an easy target, even on a moonlit night. Tonight, the lack of moonlight might give you an opportunity to see a fainter feature of our winter Giant. Look below his three belt stars, where a fainter line marks his sword. The very end of the sword is a...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 6, 2024 | NightSky
Today: An early morning challenge awaits from 6:00 to 6:30, as a thinning Crescent Moon appears wll to the right of the stunning Venus, slipping more and more into the Sun’s twilight each morning. From 6:15 to 6:25, you might barely glimpse another planet below...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 5, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The Milky Way is showing off in the dark, moonless evening skies, arching from southeast and into the south, climbing above Orion and nearly overhead. It then shimmers down toward the northwestern horizon. During March, the Milky Way, and Orion, ease lower into...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 4, 2024 | NightSky
Today: A waning Crescent Moon continues its early morning showcase, moving from the right of the red star Antares earlier this morning, to the left of Antares tomorrow morning from 6 to 6:15 AM. By 6:15, even though the twilight gets brighter and brighter, Venus...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 3, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Over the next few mornings, from 6 o’clock until the twilight brightens by 6:30, a waning Crescent of a Moon offers early risers a few arrangements with the star Antares, and the delightful but departing Venus, low in the southeast. The displays start...
