Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Friday, March 30th.  The sun will rise at 7:26.  It’ll be up for 12 hours and 41 minutes, setting at 8:08.   The moon, at first quarter today, will set at 3:36 tomorrow morning.

The 4th month of the year begins Sunday with Palm Sunday.  Daylight hours in the Interlochen/Traverse City area and will increase from 12 hours and 48 minutes Sunday to 14 hours 13 minutes on April 30th.  The altitude, or angle, of the sun above the southern horizon at local noon will be 50 degrees Sunday and will ascend to 60 degrees on April 30th.  The altitude of the sun in the Straits area will be a degree lower.  The actual time of local apparent noon this month for the Interlochen/Traverse City area, when the sun passes due south, will be about 1:43 p.m.  The full moon next Friday is the Pascal full moon meaning the western churches will celebrate Easter the following Sunday.  Passover starts that Friday night, while Orthodox Easter is the 15th.

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