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Ephemeris: 06/03/2024 – We begin our 50th orbit of the Sun

June 3, 2024

This is Ephemeris for Monday, June 3rd. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 24 minutes, setting at 9:23, and it will rise tomorrow at 5:58. The Moon, 3 days before new, will rise at 4:20 tomorrow morning.

Today begins Ephemeris’ 50th circuit of the Sun having completed 49 last Friday. Next month will be the 50th anniversary of my stint as a volunteer program producer for IPR, but that’s another story. So already having produced a weekly program for Interlochen Public Radio, which back then was simply, to me anyway, WIAA. I was asked to come up with a week daily program giving out the sunrise and sunset times. Well I really didn’t want to do just that. Back then I had to come into the station to record them. So what I did was add the Moon rise or set times and a little bit of astronomical trivia. By the way an Ephemeris is a table of celestial body positions over time.

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.

Addendum

This is a representation of my Ephemeris helper program which among other things creates the first 15 or so seconds of any ephemeris program
This is a representation of my Ephemeris Helper program (ephemhln) which among other things creates the first 15 or so seconds of any Ephemeris program. While it’s not me actually writing every one it is my program interpreting the data for sunrises, sunsets, moonrises, and moon sets, so that it comes out as readable texts. Note that the the early morning time and late morning time are the same. This is because it was decided that anything that happened before the last airing would be moved to the next day.Always forward-looking instead of backward looking. Also note that there are Evening Times. For a short period Ephemeris was also airing in the evenings, which would necessitate a different intro. In the notepad on the right called ephem.txt is a file of what it created with data from my own program’s data for sunrises and sunsets, plus also information from a NASA calendar that can be downloaded online.
An actual ephemeris of the planet Jupiter for June of this year
This is an actual ephemeris of the planet Jupiter for June of this year produced by my Ephemeris Helper program from data that was actually created MS-DOS program called LookingUp which I wrote back in the 1990s.

My programming background is not that of scientific coding, but that of the financial industry which is completely different. So I had to pretty much learn on my own and use references for the coding and algorithms for the calculation of astronomical positions, times, and events.

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