Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Tuesday, July 17th.  Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 9 minutes, setting at 9:22.   The moon, 2 days before new, will rise at 5:50 tomorrow morning.  Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:14.

Crawling just above the southern horizon at 11 p.m. is the zodiacal constellation of Scorpius the scorpion.  His heart is the red giant star Antares.  Its facing the west or right with a short arc of three stars as its head.  His body and tail drop to the left and scrape the horizon before curving up to the critter’s poisonous stinger of two stars.  One story of the scorpion concerns Orion the hunter the great winter constellation.  In that story Orion was supposedly killed by the sting of a scorpion.  Therefore Orion and Scorpius are never seen in the sky at the same time.  That is certainly true around here and for the Greeks, whose legend it is.  However if one travels far enough south that is no longer true.

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

Addendum

The constellation Scorpius at 10:30 p.m. on July 17, 2012. Created using Stellarium.