Today:
Night owls can see the waning Gibbous Moon rise in the southeast at around 2:20 AM. As the moon then travels low in the southern sky, it will do so just ahead the constellation Sagittarius, to Moon’s left. Tomorrow night the Moon will rise about a half hour later, this time squarely within that part of Sagittarius known as the Teapot.
Wednesday:
Today marks the second anniversary of the stunning, Total Solar Eclipse that swept across the US and southeast Canada, right over northern VT and NH, last year in 2024. The weather cooperated surprisingly well, considering clouds dominate the skies on 4 out of 5 days in early April. The next total eclipse, favoring southern VT, takes place in May of 2079.
Thursday:
The northwestern skies in the evenings are home to Capella, the Goat Star. In mythology this is the nurse goat for the great Jupiter, and was rewarded with a place in the heavens. It is half way up from the horizon in the west-northwest at 9:00 PM, well below and to the right of the Twin Stars in Gemini.