by FLEK Admin | Oct 16, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Guess who is now fully risen before midnight? The Winter champion Orion lifts into the east and southeast for night owls, tracking to due south by 4:45 AM tomorrow morning, and then heads into the southwest just as twilight begins, around 6 o’clock....
by FLEK Admin | Oct 15, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Night owls at 3:00 tomorrow morning will see a waning Crescent Moon due east, accompanied by the royal star Regulus, the “heart” of Leo, the Lion. If that’s too early, they climb higher into the southeast, about two thirds of the way up from...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 14, 2025 | NightSky
Today: As it emerges from the sun’s glare at around 7 PM, Saturn maintains its current role as the only planet visible in the evening sky. It will rise in the southeast, surrounded by the constellations Cetus, Pisces, and Aquarius. The viewing of other planets...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 13, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Ursa Major, better known as the Great Bear, is settling very low along the northern horizon during the evenings, before rising back into the north-northeast after 10 o’clock. Best known here something contained within the Bear, that being the asterism...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 12, 2025 | NightSky
Today: When Columbus landed in the Bahamas on this date in 1492, he used the North Star to determine his location. However, he mistakenly used the star Alderamin in Cepheus, and thought he landed near what is now Boston. Either tropical breezes, or an able assistant,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 11, 2025 | NightSky
Today: If you’re up at midnight tonight, you can view quite a jubilee of bright bodies in the east-northeast. This will center upon the Waning Gibbous Moon, surrounded by Capella to its top left, Aldebaran to it top right, Betelgeuse to it lower right, and the...
