Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Monday, November 29th.  The sun will rise at 7:56.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 7 minutes, setting at 5:04.   The moon, 1 day past last quarter, will rise at 2:01 tomorrow morning.

The central constellation of winter, Orion the hunter, is low in the east southeastern sky at 9 p.m.  Look for the line of three stars that is his belt aligned nearly vertically.  Orion’s rectangular frame is tilted to the left with his shoulder stars Betelgeuse, in the upper left and Bellatrix, and his knee stars Saif and Rigel to the lower right.  Red Betelgeuse and blue-white Rigel vie for the brightest of Orion’s stars.  It is a never ending contest, because Betelgeuse is a variable star, and is usually somewhat dimmer than Rigel.  They make a nice color contrast.  From Betelgeuse extend stars that portray an arm holding a club.  From Bellatrix extend stars to the right that delineate an arm holding up a shield to ward off the charge of Taurus the Bull.

* Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.