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07/05/2013 – Ephemeris – Earth at aphelion and astronomy tonight

July 5, 2013

Ephemeris for Friday, July 5th.  Today the sun will be up for 15 hours and 26 minutes, setting at 9:30.   The moon, 3 days before new, will rise at 4:52 tomorrow morning.  Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:04.

The earth is as far as it will get from the sun for the year today at  94.5 million miles.  Speaking of the sun, the monthly meeting of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society at 8 p.m. at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory tonight will host local landscape architect Dean Conners an expert on sundials.  He created the sundial in the Children’s Garden behind the District Library. who will talk about some interesting sundials.  After the meeting at 9 p.m. there will be a star party at the observatory with the planets Venus and Saturn plus some of the bright wonders of the summer sky, like the Ring Nebula, The Great Hercules Globular Star Cluster if it’s clear.  There’s other activities if it’s cloudy.

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

 

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