Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Monday, August 1st.  The sun rises at 6:28.  It’ll be up for 14 hours and 39 minutes, setting at 9:08.   The moon, 2 days past new, will set at 9:52 this evening.

Let’s look ahead at the month of August in the skies.  Daylight hours will decrease from 14 hours and 39 minutes today to 13 hours 17 minutes on the 31st.  The altitude of the sun at local noon, that is degrees of angle above the horizon will decrease from 63 degrees today to just over 53 degrees on the 31st.  Straits area listeners can subtract one more degree from those angles.  Local noon, when the sun is due south, is about 1:43 p.m.  The Perseid meteor shower will reach its peak on the morning of the 12th, but will be mostly unseen due to the bright moon.  However on the nights between now and then when the moon has set these meteors will still be plentiful.  We saw two bright ones Saturday night at the Sleeping Bear Dunes viewing night.

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