Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Friday, July 22nd.  Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 1 minute, setting at 9:19.   The moon, 1 day before last quarter, will rise at 12:22 tomorrow morning.  Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:18.

Tonight is the first of three appearances of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society at Friday Night Live on Front Street in Traverse City.  We’re usually stationed a few doors west of the State Theater.  If it’s clear we’ll have telescopes looking at the sun.  Solar activity is picking up with more sunspots visible than last year.  The society will also be there next Friday along with three other events next week.  On Wednesday the 27th we’ll be at Black Star Farms in Suttons Bay for a dinner, dessert, a twilight talk and viewing of the stars.  On Thursday its the GTAS at the Lanphier Observatory in Glen Arbor.  Saturday we’ll be at stop 3 on Pierce Stocking Drive at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

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