Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Friday, February 3rd.  The sun will rise at 7:59.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 54 minutes, setting at 5:53.   The moon, half way from first quarter to full, will set at 5:28 tomorrow morning.

A Star Bowl quiz will be held this evening between the NMC Astronomy Association and the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society at this evening’s meeting of the society at 8 p.m. at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory.  The society will accept anyone to help us.  These NMC students are smart.  After the Star Bowl there will be a viewing night starting at 9 p.m.  On tap if its clear will be the last gasp of the planet Venus before it sets, Jupiter will be high up as well as the moon.  Mars will rise as the viewing starts, but we will need to wait until at least 10 p.m. for it to clear the thick earth’s atmosphere lower down in the sky.  The Observatory is located south of Traverse City on Birmley Road off either Garfield or Keystone roads.

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