Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Good Friday, Friday, April 22nd.  The sun rises at 6:47.  It’ll be up for 13 hours and 48 minutes, setting at 8:35.   The moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 1:57 tomorrow morning.

Hydra the Water snake is the longest of the constellations.  Its head is a group of five stars in a close group below a line between Leo the Lion and Gemini the twins in the southwest.  Its stars drop down and skirt the horizon and end in the southeast.  It takes a low southern horizon to follow its body.  The Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers observatory will be open tonight starting at 9 p.m. for observation of the heavens and the front half of Hydra.  The featured celestial object of the evening will be the ringed planet Saturn..  The viewing night will be hosted by the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society and the NMC Astronomical Association. There will be an alternate program if its cloudy.

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

Addendum

Hydra via Stellarium for April 22, 2011 at 10 p.m.