Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Wednesday, January 19th.  The sun will rise at 8:13.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 19 minutes, setting at 5:33.   The moon, at full today, will rise at 5:41 this evening.

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 10:49 p.m.  The ringed planet Saturn will rise at 12:08 a.m. in the east southeast.  Venus is brilliant in the morning sky and will rise at 4:52 a.m. in the east southeast.  Mercury will rise at 6:59 in the east southeast. Mercury may be seen by about 7: 30 a.m. low in the east southeast with binoculars.

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