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08/26/11 – Ephemeris – Observing events this weekend

August 26, 2011

Friday, August 26th.  The sun rises at 6:57.  It’ll be up for 13 hours and 32 minutes, setting at 8:30.   The moon, 2 days before new, will rise at 5:10 tomorrow morning.

We have a couple of events this weekend to view the heavens hosted by the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society.  Starting at 9 p.m. tonight the Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory will be open for viewing of the wonders of the summer Milky Way.  Then Saturday night starting around 9 if it is clear the society will be at the Open Space or near the beach west of there for an asteroid Vesta viewing night.  We’ll be hunting for a dark spot probably as far as we can get from lights.  We’ll have a banner visible from the Grand View Parkway to the area we’ll be in.  We’ll be viewing 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.

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

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