Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Friday, October 1st.  The sun will rise at 7:40.  It’ll be up for 11 hours and 42 minutes, setting at 7:23.   The moon, 1 day past last quarter, will rise at 1:10 tomorrow morning.

This evening the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will meet at 8 p.m. at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory.  Special guest Walter Hoegy, retired physicist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center will provide the program: “Climate Studies in the Arctic and a look at the Sun”.  Tomorrow night starting at 8 p.m. there will be a Public Viewing Night at the observatory.  This is that last shot at viewing the wonders of the southern part of the Milky Way with its bright nebulae where stars are being formed and star clusters.  Bright Jupiter and maybe even Uranus will also be featured..  The observatory is located south of Traverse City on Birmley Road between Garfield and Keystone roads.

Times are for the Grand Traverse Area of Northern Michigan, USA.