Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Friday, July 29th.  The sun rises at 6:25.  It’ll be up for 14 hours and 46 minutes, setting at 9:11.   The moon, 1 day before new, will rise at 6:20 tomorrow morning.

The Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will hold a viewing night in cooperation with the rangers of the  Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore tomorrow night starting at 9 p.m.  It will be held at stop 3, the Dunes Overlook on Pierce Stocking Drive.  It’s best to park at Picnic Mountain and walk over. The short cul-de-sac running to he observation platform will be closed to preserve the darkness of the spot.  The viewing will take place only if we’re not completely clouded up.  On tap early will be the planet Saturn, which we’ll probably pick up around 9:45.  We’ll then go for some of the brighter sky objects like binary stars, then fainter star clusters and nebulae in the summer Milky Way.  Sleeping Bear is one of the top 10 darkest national parks.

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