Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Wednesday, October 6th.  The sun will rise at 7:46.  It’ll be up for 11 hours and 27 minutes, setting at 7:13.   The moon, 1 day before new, will rise at 7:42 tomorrow morning.

Lets take a look at the bright planets for this week. Venus and Mars are very low in the twilight.  Venus is the brightest.  It’s 32.1 million miles away and slowly approaching, and appears as a thin crescent.  If you can find it.  It will set at 7:41 p.m.  Mars, though appearing farther from the sun, is too dim to be spotted in the bright twilight.  The planet Jupiter is up at sunset and will move due south at 12:29 a.m..  It is very bright in the southeastern sky, and the brightest starlight object in the sky.  It’s located in Pisces this year and will set at 6:19 a.m.  Comet Hartley 2 may be just visible in binoculars as a fuzzy spot just right of the bottom of the W shape of the constellation Cassiopeia in the evening now.

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