Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Friday, November 26th.  The sun will rise at 7:53.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 12 minutes, setting at 5:06.   The moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 10:18 this evening.

Low in the east southeast at 9 p.m. is the constellation of the giant hunter Orion.  Above him is Taurus the bull.  His face is a letter V shape of stars lying on its side, the star cluster Hyades,  with the bright orange-red star Aldebaran at one tip of the V as its angry blood-shot eye, but actually about half way between us and the cluster.  Orion is depicted in the sky facing, with club in one hand and a shield in the other, the approaching and in some depictions charging Taurus.  The Pleiades star cluster is in his shoulder.  Taurus in Greek mythology was the guise the god Zeus when he carried off the maiden Europa.  Europa’s still with him as the intriguing satellite orbiting Zeus’ Roman equivalent the planet Jupiter.

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