Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Wednesday, March 28th.  The sun will rise at 7:29.  It’ll be up for 12 hours and 35 minutes, setting at 8:05.   The moon, 2 days before first quarter, will set at 2:10 tomorrow morning.

Let’s see what’s happening with the bright planets for this week.  Venus and Jupiter are separating in the western sky after sunset.  Jupiter is below Venus, the brighter planet. Jupiter will set at 11:01 p.m. followed by Venus at 12:20 a.m.  Mars is up in the southeast in the evening with its unmistakable bright reddish color.  It’s in the constellation Leo the lion now.  It is 68.3 million miles and moving away.    Mars will pass due south at 11:43 p.m. and will be setting in the west at 6:37 a.m. Saturn will rise at 9:31 p.m. just to the left of the bright star Spica in the east southeast.  It will pass due south at 3:01  We have 4 bright planets visible in the evening.

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

Addendum

The stars and planets at 10:30 p.m. on 3/28/2012. Created using Stellarium,