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04/01/11 – Ephemeris – Astronomical events in the Grand Traverse area this weekend

April 1, 2011

April Fools Day, Friday, April 1st.  The sun will rise at 7:23.  It’ll be up for 12 hours and 45 minutes, setting at 8:09.   The moon, 2 days before new, will rise at 6:34 tomorrow morning.

This evening Northwestern Michigan College’s own professor Jerry Dobek will present a talk about the book to be released at the end of this month at this evening’s meeting of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society starting at 8 p.m. at the college’s Rogers Observatory..  Jerry is republishing A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way by E. E. Barnard from the best plates of the 1927 edition with additions and corrections to the original tables.  Tomorrow evening starting at 9 p.m. the Society along with the NMC Astronomy  Association will host a public viewing night at the observatory.  This will be our last chance, if it’s clear to view the setting winter celestial wonders and we’ll get a preview of the rising ones of spring.

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

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