Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Friday, May 6th.  The sun rises at 6:26.  It’ll be up for 14 hours and 26 minutes, setting at 8:52.   The moon, 3 days past new, will set at 12:25 tomorrow morning.

This evening Northwestern Michigan College’s professor emeritus “Doc” H.G. Smith will present a program on Saturn’s rings at this evening’s meeting of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society starting at 8 p.m. at the college’s Rogers Observatory.  The Cassini spacecraft has given us some amazing images of those rings.  Tomorrow evening starting at 9 p.m. the Society along with the NMC Astronomy  Association will host a public viewing night at the observatory.  On tap, if it’s clear, will be the planet Saturn and the crescent moon.  Tomorrow is also Astronomy Day, and we’ll have some special exhibits and programs related to that.  The observatory is located south of Traverse City on Birmley road between Garfield and Keystone roads.

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