Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Thursday, April 26th.  The sun rises at 6:39.  It’ll be up for 14 hours and 2 minutes, setting at 8:41.   The moon, 3 days before first quarter, will set at 1:33 tomorrow morning.

The moon is getting ready to take over the night sky.  It’s crescent is getting fatter each day as it moves eastward.  There are two events scheduled to take with the moon and the bright spring planets, and one to show the sun this weekend.  Tomorrow the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will hold a star party at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.  It will be held at Platte River Point, west of Honor starting at about 8:30 p.m.  Saturday is International Astronomy Day.  Some of us will take our telescopes to the Open Space in Traverse City to view the sun with our new solar telescope and other scopes.  That’s from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.  That evening starting at nine with be a star party at the Rogers Observatory.

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