Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Election Day, Tuesday, November 2nd.*  The sun will rise at 8:21.  It’ll be up for 10 hours and 8 minutes, setting at 6:30.   The moon, 3 days past last quarter, will rise at 5:16 tomorrow morning.  |  One of the constellations of the zodiac is in the southern sky at 9 in the evening.  It’s the constellation of Aquarius the water bearer.  The image that is supposed to be depicted in the stars is that of a hapless fellow spilling a stone jar of water across the sky.  Aquarius is fairly hard to spot because it is made of faint stars.  But this year it is just to the right of the bright planet Jupiter. One part of him is easy to spot, the Water Jar, an asterism or informal constellation.  It’s a distinctive small nearly equilateral triangle of stars with another star in the center.  Stars extending to the right from the water jar are that stream of water.  The body of Aquarius is below, a misshapen balloon of stars that is seen above the bright star Fomalhaut, low in the south.

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