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05/31/2019 – Ephemeris – Previewing June skies

May 31, 2019

Ephemeris for Friday, May 31st. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 19 minutes, setting at 9:20, and it will rise tomorrow at 6:00. The Moon, 3 days before new, will rise at 5:13 tomorrow morning.

Let’s preview the skies of June. There’ will be a lot of Sun in June and very little night. The daylight hours will increase a bit from 15 hours and 20 minutes tomorrow to 15 hours and 34 minutes on the 21st, retreating back to 15 hours 31 minutes at month’s end. At this time of the year the sunset times for Ludington, Interlochen, Petoskey and Mackinaw City are very nearly the same. However the sunrise times are at their most divergent. With Ludington’s sunrise being 14 minutes later than Mackinaw City’s. The altitude of the sun above the southern horizon at local noon around 1:43 p.m. will hover around 68 to 69 degrees. Summer will start on the 21st at 11:54 a.m. The planet Mercury will grace our evening skies this month.

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

Addendum

June Evening Star Chart

June Evening Star Chart

Star Chart for June 2019 (11 p.m. EDT June 15, 2019). Created using my LookingUp program. Click on image to enlarge.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 11 p.m. EDT in the evening and 4 a.m. for the morning chart. These are the chart times. Note that Traverse City is located approximately 45 minutes behind our time meridian, West 75° longitude. (An hour 45 minutes behind our daylight saving time meridian during EDT). To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere you may have to set it to 1 hour 45 minutes earlier than the current time.

Note the chart times of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. are for the 15th. For each week before the 15th add ½ hour (28 minutes if you’re picky). For each week after the 15th subtract ½ hour. The planet positions are updated each Wednesday on this blog. For planet positions on dates other than the 15th, check the Wednesday planet posts on this blog.

June Morning Star Chart

June 2019 morning star chart

Star Chart for June mornings 2019 (4 a.m. EDT June 15, 2019). Created using my LookingUp program. Click on image to enlarge.

For a list of constellation names to go with the abbreviations click here.

  • Pointer stars at the front of the bowl of the Big Dipper point to Polaris the North Star.
  • Leaky dipper drips on Leo.
  • Follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper to the star Arcturus, and
  • Extend like a spike to Spica.
  • The Summer Triangle is in red.

Twilight Limits, Nautical and Astronomical

EDT
Traverse
City		 Morning twilight Evening twilight Dark night Moon
Date Astro. Nautical Nautical Astro. Start End Illum.
2019-06-01 3h43m 4h42m 22h46m 23h45m 23h45m 3h43m 0.04
2019-06-02 3h42m 4h41m 22h47m 23h47m 23h47m 3h42m 0.01
2019-06-03 3h41m 4h40m 22h49m 23h48m 23h48m 3h41m 0
2019-06-04 3h39m 4h40m 22h50m 23h50m 23h50m 3h39m 0.02
2019-06-05 3h38m 4h39m 22h51m 23h51m 23h51m 3h38m 0.07
2019-06-06 3h37m 4h38m 22h52m 23h53m – 3h37m 0.15
2019-06-07 3h36m 4h38m 22h53m 23h54m 0h41m 3h36m 0.24
2019-06-08 3h35m 4h37m 22h53m 23h55m 1h23m 3h35m 0.35
2019-06-09 3h34m 4h37m 22h54m 23h57m 1h59m 3h34m 0.47
2019-06-10 3h34m 4h36m 22h55m 23h58m 2h31m 3h34m 0.59
2019-06-11 3h33m 4h36m 22h56m 23h59m 2h59m 3h33m 0.7
2019-06-12 3h32m 4h36m 22h57m 0h00m 3h26m 3h32m 0.8
2019-06-13 3h32m 4h36m 22h57m 0h01m – – 0.88
2019-06-14 3h32m 4h35m 22h58m 0h02m – – 0.95
2019-06-15 3h31m 4h35m 22h58m 0h02m – – 0.95
2019-06-16 3h31m 4h35m 22h59m 0h03m – – 0.98
2019-06-17 3h31m 4h35m 22h59m 0h04m – – 1
2019-06-18 3h31m 4h35m 23h00m 0h04m – – 0.99
2019-06-19 3h31m 4h35m 23h00m 0h05m – – 0.96
2019-06-20 3h31m 4h35m 23h00m 0h05m – – 0.91
2019-06-21 3h31m 4h36m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 0h12m 0.85
2019-06-22 3h31m 4h36m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 0h44m 0.77
2019-06-23 3h32m 4h36m 23h01m 0h06m 0h06m 1h12m 0.68
2019-06-24 3h32m 4h36m 23h01m 0h06m 0h06m 1h37m 0.59
2019-06-25 3h32m 4h37m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 2h01m 0.49
2019-06-26 3h33m 4h37m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 2h23m 0.39
2019-06-27 3h34m 4h38m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 2h47m 0.3
2019-06-28 3h35m 4h38m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 3h13m 0.21
2019-06-29 3h35m 4h39m 23h01m 0h04m 0h04m 3h35m 0.12
2019-06-30 3h36m 4h40m 23h00m 0h04m 0h04m 3h36m 0.06

Twilight calendar was generated using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts).

See my blog post: Twilight Zone for the definitions of the different periods of twilight here: https://bobmoler.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/.

NASA Calendar of Planetary Events

Date       Time    Event
Jun  1 Sa          Venus: 20° W
     1 Sa  2:15 pm Moon-Venus: 3.4° N
     3 Mo  6:02 am New Moon
     5 We  8:58 am Moon North Dec.: 22.4° N
     5 We 11:05 am Moon-Mars: 1.6° N
     5 We  6:46 pm Moon Ascending Node
     7 Fr  3:19 am Moon-Beehive: 0.2° S
     7 Fr  7:21 pm Moon Perigee: 368500 km
     8 Sa  9:54 pm Venus-Pleiades: 5.1° S
    10 Mo  1:59 am First Quarter
    10 Mo 11:11 am Jupiter Opposition
    16 Su  2:50 pm Moon-Jupiter: 2.1° S
    16 Su  7:09 pm Venus-Aldebaran: 4.7° N
    17 Mo  4:31 am Full Moon
    18 Tu 11:33 am Moon South Dec.: 22.4° S
    18 Tu  1:41 pm Mercury-Mars: 0.2° N
    18 Tu  9:49 pm Moon Descending Node
    18 Tu 11:58 pm Moon-Saturn: 0.5° N
    19 We  9:06 am Mercury-Pollux: 5.4° S
    21 Fr  3:56 am Mars-Pollux: 5.5° S
    21 Fr 11:54 am Summer Solstice
    23 Su  3:50 am Moon Apogee: 404500 km
    23 Su  6:59 pm Mercury Greatest Elongation: 25.2° E
    25 Tu  5:46 am Last Quarter
    30 Su 11:06 am Moon-Aldebaran: 2.3° S
Jul  1 Mo          Venus: 12° W

All event times are given for UTC-4 hr: Eastern Daylight Saving Time.

Sky Events Calendar by Fred Espenak and Sumit Dutta (NASA’s GSFC),
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html.

If you go to the above site you can print out a list like the above for the entire year or calendar pages for your time zone.

Sun and Moon Rising and Setting Events

     LU                  Ephemeris of Sky Events for Interlochen/TC
     June, 2019    Local time zone: EDT
     +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
     | DATE |  SUN     SUN  DAYLIGHT|   TWILIGHT*    |MOON  RISE OR    ILLUM |
     |      |  RISE    SET    HOURS |  END    START  |PHASE SET** TIME FRACTN|
     +=======================================================================+
     |Sat  1| 06:00a  09:21p  15:20 | 10:44p  04:37a |      Rise 05:45a    3%|
     +------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
     |Sun  2| 05:59a  09:22p  15:22 | 10:45p  04:36a |      Rise 06:22a    0%|
     |Mon  3| 05:59a  09:22p  15:23 | 10:46p  04:35a |New   Set  09:45p    0%|
     |Tue  4| 05:59a  09:23p  15:24 | 10:47p  04:35a |      Set  10:51p    3%|
     |Wed  5| 05:58a  09:24p  15:25 | 10:48p  04:34a |      Set  11:49p    8%|
     |Thu  6| 05:58a  09:25p  15:26 | 10:49p  04:33a |      Set  12:40a   16%|
     |Fri  7| 05:57a  09:25p  15:27 | 10:50p  04:33a |      Set  01:23a   25%|
     |Sat  8| 05:57a  09:26p  15:28 | 10:51p  04:32a |      Set  01:59a   36%|
     +------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
     |Sun  9| 05:57a  09:27p  15:29 | 10:52p  04:32a |      Set  02:30a   47%|
     |Mon 10| 05:57a  09:27p  15:30 | 10:53p  04:31a |F Qtr Set  02:59a   59%|
     |Tue 11| 05:56a  09:28p  15:31 | 10:53p  04:31a |      Set  03:26a   69%|
     |Wed 12| 05:56a  09:28p  15:31 | 10:54p  04:31a |      Set  03:53a   79%|
     |Thu 13| 05:56a  09:29p  15:32 | 10:55p  04:30a |      Set  04:23a   87%|
     |Fri 14| 05:56a  09:29p  15:33 | 10:55p  04:30a |      Set  04:55a   94%|
     |Sat 15| 05:56a  09:30p  15:33 | 10:56p  04:30a |      Set  05:32a   98%|
     +------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
     |Sun 16| 05:56a  09:30p  15:33 | 10:56p  04:30a |      Set  06:14a  100%|
     |Mon 17| 05:56a  09:30p  15:34 | 10:57p  04:30a |Full  Rise 09:56p  100%|
     |Tue 18| 05:56a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:57p  04:30a |      Rise 10:49p   97%|
     |Wed 19| 05:56a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:57p  04:30a |      Rise 11:34p   93%|
     |Thu 20| 05:56a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:30a |      Rise 12:12a   87%|
     |Fri 21| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:30a |      Rise 12:44a   80%|
     |Sat 22| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |      Rise 01:12a   72%|
     +------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
     |Sun 23| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |      Rise 01:37a   63%|
     |Mon 24| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |      Rise 02:00a   54%|
     |Tue 25| 05:58a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:32a |L Qtr Rise 02:23a   44%|
     |Wed 26| 05:58a  09:32p  15:33 | 10:58p  04:32a |      Rise 02:47a   35%|
     |Thu 27| 05:59a  09:32p  15:33 | 10:58p  04:32a |      Rise 03:13a   26%|
     |Fri 28| 05:59a  09:32p  15:33 | 10:58p  04:33a |      Rise 03:42a   17%|
     |Sat 29| 05:59a  09:32p  15:32 | 10:58p  04:34a |      Rise 04:16a   10%|
     +------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
     |Sun 30| 06:00a  09:32p  15:31 | 10:57p  04:34a |      Rise 04:58a    4%|
     +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
     * Nautical Twilight
     ** Moonrise or moonset, whichever occurs between sunrise and sunset
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