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L.B. Herrington: A Beginning
2025: CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF LAKE LIFE
In 1784, in John Filson's book Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky (originally spelled Kentucke), we find the first telling of explorations by Colonel Daniel Boone, who wrote about the Dick's (later to become Dix) River, "the river affords many excellent mill seats and will have plenty of water in the driest seasons." Sugar cane in our region was plentiful, and there were many water-driven grist mills built along the river over the years. But, it was not until 140 years later that a water-driven mill of another kind, one that would generate electricity, was built. The Dix Dam Hydro-Electric Station was an industrial plant that the great pioneers of early Kentucky could not have even dream ...
Get a look at what's happening in the night sky this month .
Herrington Nights in October
Here are the exact dates and times for the key events in August 2025:
- October 2: Ceres (mag 7.6) at opposition, Mercury (mag -0.5) near Spica (mag 1);
- October 5: October Camelopardalids’ peak (ZHR=5);
- October 6: Saturn (mag 0.6), and Neptune (mag 7.8) near Moon;
- October 7: Supermoon 🌟;
- October 8: C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) passes perihelion 🌟; Draconids’ peak (ZHR=5);
- October 10: Moon near Aldebaran (mag 0.8); lunar occultation of the Pleiades (mag 1.6); Uranus (mag 5.6) near Moon;
- October 11: Delta Aurigids’ peak (ZHR=2); Jupiter (mag -2.2) near Pollux (mag 1.2);
- October 13: Southern Taurids’ early activity (ZHR=5); Jupiter (mag -2.2) near Moon; Pollux (mag 1.2) near Moon; Last Quarter Moon;
- October 14: Moon near the Beehive Cluster (mag 3.1);
- October 16: Lunar occultation of Regulus (mag 1.4);
- October 18: Epsilon Geminids’ peak (ZHR=3);
- October 19: Mercury (mag -0.2) near Mars (mag 1.4); Venus (mag -3.9) near Moon;
- October 20: C/2025 R2 SWAN passes perigee 🌟;
- October 21: Orionids’ peak (ZHR=20) 🌟; New Moon; C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) passes perigee 🌟;
- October 23: Mercury (mag -0.2) and Mars (mag 1.4) near Moon;
- October 24: Leonis Minorids’ peak (ZHR=2); lunar occultation of Antares (mag 1.0);
- October 29: Comet 3I/ATLAS passes perihelion 🌟; First Quarter Moon; Mercury (mag −0.1) at greatest eastern elongation (≈ 24° from the Sun) 🌟.
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Lake Heritage Collection
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