Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Tuesday, April 30th.  The sun rises at 6:33.  It’ll be up for 14 hours and 12 minutes, setting at 8:46.   The moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 1:57 tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow we’ll start the month of May when the promise of spring is finally fulfilled.  Daylight hours in the Interlochen/Traverse City area will increase from 14 hours and 15 minutes tomorrow to 15 hours 19 minutes on May 31st.  The altitude, or angle, of the sun above the southern horizon at local noon will ascend from 60 degrees now to 67 degrees at month’s end.  The altitude of the sun in the Straits area will be a degree lower than that but your daylight will be a few minutes longer.  Local apparent noon this month, when the sun passes due south, will be about 1:38 p.m.  This is the month of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower which will reach its peak next Monday morning.  They will be best seen around 5 a.m.

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

Addendum

May Stars, centered at 11 p.m. on the 15th. Created using my program Looking Up for Windows.