Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Friday, August 2nd.  The sun rises at 6:30.  It’ll be up for 14 hours and 35 minutes, setting at 9:06.   The moon, half way from last quarter to new, will rise at 3:38 tomorrow morning.

Tonight the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society and the NMC Astronomy Club will host a star party at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory starting at 9 p.m. featuring, if it’s clear, the planets Venus and Saturn.  Some of the wonders of the summer sky can be seen as it gets darker.  There are sparkling binary stars and star clusters including the Great Globular Star Cluster in Hercules, the Wild Duck Cluster, the Ring Nebula, the expanding gasses of a dying star.     There are also other wonders of the Milky Way to be seen.  There will be a program if the skies are too cloudy to observe.  The observatory is located south of Traverse City, on Birmley Road between Garfield and Keystone roads.

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