Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Monday, November 1st.*  The sun will rise at 8:20.  It’ll be up for 10 hours and 11 minutes, setting at 6:31.   The moon, 2 days past last quarter, will rise at 3:59 tomorrow morning.

Let’s look at the skies for the month of November. The sun is still moving south rapidly.  Daylight hours in the Interlochen/Traverse City area and will drop from 10 hours and 11 minutes today to 9 hours 6 minutes on the 30th.  The altitude, or angle, of the sun above the southern horizon at local noon will be just under 31 degrees today and will descend to 23 and a half degrees on the 30th.  The altitude of the sun in the Straits area will be a degree lower.  Local noon, this month, will be about 12:30 p.m. when we go back to standard time this weekend.   The moon will interfere with the most prominent meteor shower this month the Leonids at mid month.  Beginning next week the planet Venus will begin to appear in the morning sky before sunrise.

* Times, as always are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.