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04/27/2012 – Ephemeris – Astronomy Day and other viewing opportunities this weekend

April 27, 2012

Ephemeris for Arbor Day, Friday, April 27th.  The sun rises at 6:37.  It’ll be up for 14 hours and 4 minutes, setting at 8:42.   The moon, 2 days before first quarter, will set at 2:10 tomorrow morning.

The moon’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.  Tonight 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 Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory.

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

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