Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Friday, July 1st. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 30 minutes, setting at 9:32, and it will rise tomorrow at 6:01. The Moon, 3 days past new, will set at 11:44 this evening.

Tonight at 9 pm, the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will have an in-person meeting at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory. The meeting will also be available via Zoom. Becky Shaw returns with a program Famous international and national observatories. I’m not sure which observatories she’s selected, but there are many, not just optical, but radio, infrared, and in space: Hubble, and the soon to become operational James Webb Space Telescope. If it’s clear, there will be a star party following the meeting. The observatory is located south of Traverse City off Birmley Road, between Garfield and Keystone roads. A Zoom link will be available at gtastro.org before the meeting.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT – 4 hours). They may be different for your location.