Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Friday, June 24th.  Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 33 minutes, setting at 9:31.   The moon, 1 day past last quarter, will rise at 1:54 tomorrow morning.  Tomorrow the sun will rise at 5:58.

This weekend we’ll have a night and a day of viewing courtesy of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society.  Tonight the Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory will be open for viewing starting at 9 p.m.  It won’t get dark until after 10 p.m. The planet Saturn, colorful binary stars and some of the brighter deep sky objects later on may be seen if its clear.  Saturday, society members will bring their telescopes for viewing the sun and meteorites to the Boardman River Nature Center’s Nature Fest.  They’re at, 1450 Cass Road from 10a.m. to 4 p.m.  Last week’s viewing at Platte River Point was great.  Despite gray skies, we spotted the star Arcturus and our main objective, Saturn and had a turnout of 40 people.

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