Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Monday, October 1st.  The sun will rise at 7:40.  It’ll be up for 11 hours and 41 minutes, setting at 7:22.   The moon, 2 days past full, will rise at 7:51 this evening.  |   Let’s look at the skies for the month of October.  The sun will still be moving south rapidly.  Daylight hours in the Interlochen/Traverse City area and will drop from 11 hours and 41 minutes today to 10 hours, 12 minutes at months end..  The altitude of the sun above the southern horizon at local noon will be 42 degrees today, and will descend to 31degrees on Halloween, also in the Interlochen area.  The Straits area will have the sun a degree lower.  Local noon, when the sun is due south will be about 1:30 p.m. in Interlochen.  Sunrise times will increase all the way to 8:19 a.m. in Interlochen on the 31st.  Sunset times will decrease from 7:22 p.m. today to 6:32 when the trick or treaters haunt our neighborhoods.

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