Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Monday, May 14th.  Today the sun will be up for 14 hours and 47 minutes, setting at 9:03.   The moon, 2 days past last quarter, will rise at 3:27 tomorrow morning.  Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:14.  |  This Sunday evening we will, clouds willing, be able to see a piece of a solar eclipse before the sun sets.  In northwest lower Michigan, we’ll see about 50 minutes tops at the Lake Michigan shore.  This eclipse is an annular eclipse, where the moon isn’t big enough to completely cover the sun leaving a ring or annulus.  The area affected by the partial eclipse stretches from east Asia to North America, from the Arctic Ocean to the South Pacific.  The path of where the annular phase can be seen, stretches from south China to Texas.  In the United States the annular shadow will cross from southern Oregon, and northern California, to Texas at sunset.  We’ll see the very end of the partial eclipse.

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

Addendum

Eclipse map of the May 20, 2012 annular solar eclipse. Credit: NASA