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08/19/11 – Ephemeris – Lots of viewing opportunities this weekend

August 19, 2011

Friday, August 19th.  The sun rises at 6:49.  It’ll be up for 13 hours and 52 minutes, setting at 8:41.   The moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 10:53 this evening.

This will be a big weekend of observing the heavens if it’s clear.  First the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will be part of Friday Night Live on Front Street in Traverse City.  Starting at 9 p.m. Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory will be open for viewing of the skies.  Saturday night starting around 9 the society will be at the Open Space for an asteroid Vesta viewing night.  This will be repeated on the 27th.  We’ll probably be as far as we can get from lights in the area of the old power planet to view this asteroid which is currently being orbited by the dawn spacecraft.  It will look like a star in our telescopes, but one of our members has a piece of Vesta which he will exhibit also at the Open Space.

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

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