Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Friday, December 2nd.  The sun will rise at 7:59.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 3 minutes, setting at 5:03.   The moon, at first quarter today, will set at 1:14 tomorrow morning.

This evening yours truly will present one of his biannual Christmas programs, Biblical Cosmology, at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory starting at 8 p.m.  It is the monthly meeting of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society.  In the Bible, in Genesis and elsewhere we have descriptions of the earth and the heavens.  We’ll look at what the ancient Hebrews thought of the structure of the universe from the Bible and other writings.  Tomorrow evening we will also have a Public Viewing Night from 8 to 10 p.m.  This will be the last viewing night of the year.  If it’s clear we’ll look at the moon and Jupiter.  The observatory is located south of Traverse City on Birmley Road between Garfield and Keystone roads.

* Times, as always are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.