Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Tuesday, November 30th.  The sun will rise at 7:58.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 6 minutes, setting at 5:04.   The moon, 2 days past last quarter, will rise at 3:16 tomorrow morning.

Let’s preview December’s skies.  Winter will officially arrive on the 21st at 6:38 p.m., the winter solstice.  The noontime sun will dip from 23 ½ degrees to a bit less than 22 degrees above the southern horizon on that day.  There will be little movement in the sunset times: In the Traverse City/Interlochen area this will be from 5:03 tomorrow, down to 5:02 and then advancing to 5:11 at the end of the month.  There is more movement in the sunrise times which will advance from 7:59 tomorrow morning to 8:19 on the 31st.  The big events in December will be the Geminid meteor shower whose maximum is on the morning of the 14th, and a total lunar eclipse that will be visible on the morning of the 21st.

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