Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Wednesday, January 12th.  The sun will rise at 8:17.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 7 minutes, setting at 5:24.   The moon, at first quarter today, will set at 2:11 tomorrow morning.

Lets take a look at the bright planets for this week. Mars is very low and lost in the evening twilight.  The planet Jupiter is up in the southwestern sky in the early evening.  It is a spectacular sight in a telescope with its four satellites, shifting their positions from night to night, and the cloud bands running in the directions of the satellites.  Jupiter is the brightest starlight object in the evening.  It’s located below left the Circlet in Pisces now and will set at 11:05 p.m.  The ringed planet Saturn will rise at 12:35 a.m. in the east southeast.  Venus is brilliant in the morning sky and will rise at 4:43 a.m. in the east southeast.  Mercury will rise at 6:44 in the east southeast. Mercury may be seen by about 7: 30 a.m.

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