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01/06/2012 – Ephemeris – GTAS meeting and viewing night tonight

January 6, 2012

Friday, January 6th.  The sun will rise at 8:19.  It’ll be up for 8 hours and 58 minutes, setting at 5:17.   The moon, 3 days before full, will set at 6:50 tomorrow morning.

The Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will have its first meeting of the year tonight at 8 p.m. at the Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory.  Following will be a public viewing night featuring the moon and Jupiter.  This year the first viewing night of the month will come at the end of the society meeting at 9 o’clock.  Come for both.  The presentation for the meeting will be NMC Astronomy Club member Storm Strausheim and her topic will be those mysterious stellar cannibals – Black Holes.  The observatory is located on Birmley Road between Keystone and Garfield roads.  April through October this year there will be a second viewing night at the observatory later in the month.

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

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