Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Wednesday, April 11th.  The sun will rise at 7:04.  It’ll be up for 13 hours and 18 minutes, setting at 8:23.   The moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 2:19 tomorrow morning.

Let’s see what’s happening with the bright planets for this week.  Venus and Jupiter have separated quite far apart in the western sky after sunset.  Jupiter is below Venus, the brighter planet. Jupiter will set at 10:22 p.m. followed by Venus at 12:37 a.m.  Venus is 55.2 million miles away and closing.  Mars is high in the southeast to south in the evening with its unmistakable bright reddish color.  It’s in the constellation Leo the lion now.  It is 75 million miles and moving away.    Mars will pass due south at 10:46 p.m. and will be setting in the west at 5:40 a.m. Saturn will rise at 8:30 p.m. just to the left of the bright star Spica in the east southeast.  It will pass due south at 2:02 a.m.  All the bright planets except Mercury are now visible in the evening.

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

Addendum

Sky and planets at 9:20 p.m. April 11, 2012. Created using Stellarium.