Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Tuesday, June 11th.  Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 30 minutes, setting at 9:27.   The moon, 3 days past new, will set at 11:24 this evening.  Tomorrow the sun will rise at 5:56.

Last Saturday night at the Sleeping Bear Dunes star party, at the end of the official star party after 11 we were looking to the east.  The only blemish to the dark skies was the light pollution dome of Traverse City to the east.  Rising out of that yellowish haze and barely visible was the Milky Way.  In the spring skies the Milky way almost rings the horizon.  The only portion visible is low in the north, too close to the horizon to be really visible.  Now that spring is almost over , we are transitioning at the end of twilight to the summer stars and the brilliant Milky Way of summer is rising in the east.  By August it will run across the sky from northeast to the south, revealing in the south the bulge of the galactic center.

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

Addendum

The Milky Way Rising at 11:15 p.m. on June 11, 2013. Created using Stellarium.

The three named stars are those of the Summer Triangle.