Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Friday, October 4th.  The sun will rise at 7:44.  It’ll be up for 11 hours and 32 minutes, setting at 7:17.  The moon is new today, and won’t be visible.

The Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will be running some counter programming to the Midwest Space Fest going on in downtown Traverse City tonight.  It wasn’t intentional, but tonight’s out normal meeting night and star party at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory.  The program for the society starts at 8 p.m. with a talk by member Daron Smith.  His topic will be element formation starting from the time of the Big Bang.  Every element in our body except hydrogen was cooked up in stars.  At 9 p.m. there will be a star party till about 11 p.m.  If cloudy, there will be an alternate program.  Tomorrow the society with other astronomy clubs will have their telescopes at the Open Space in Traverse City to view the sun during the day and the rest of the universe at night.  Rain will cancel that event.  Clouds will cancel the night portion only.  There will be other fun and educational things to do during the day.

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

Addendum

Day time viewing at the Open Space. Transit of Venus, June 5, 2012.