by FLEK Admin | Sep 6, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Any clear evening throughout the year, you can use the outer two stars of the Big Dipper’s bowl, and extend a line from there “up” from the bowl to find Polaris, the North Star, which appears anchored due north, and half way up in the skies....
by FLEK Admin | Sep 5, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The late evening welcomes a rising, waning Gibbous Moon, making an appearance between the faint cluster of stars, the Seven Sisters or the Pleiades, to the Moon’s upper right, and well above the bright, reddish star Aldebaran, the “eye” of...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 5, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The late evening welcomes a rising, waning Gibbous Moon, making an appearance between the faint cluster of stars, the Seven Sisters or the Pleiades, to the Moon’s upper right, and well above the bright, reddish star Aldebaran, the “eye” of...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 4, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Rising in the east-northeast this evening at 9:45, a waning Gibbous Moon escorts Jupiter into view, the pair climbing higher by midnight, due east, and about one quarter of the way up from the horizon. On the left side of the Moon, an equal distance as Jupiter...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 4, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Rising in the east-northeast this evening at 9:45, a waning Gibbous Moon escorts Jupiter into view, the pair climbing higher by midnight, due east, and about one quarter of the way up from the horizon. On the left side of the Moon, an equal distance as Jupiter...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 3, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The waning Gibbous Moon brightens the nighttime skies as it rises near 9:15 PM, followed about a half-hour later by the planet Jupiter. Well left of the Moon shines one of the brightest stars in the heavens, Capella. It twinkles rather profusely, as its light...
