Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Friday, April 4th. Today the Sun will be up for 12 hours and 57 minutes, setting at 8:14, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:15. The Moon, at first quarter today, will set at 4:12 tomorrow morning.

The Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will host its April meeting tonight at 8 PM at Northwestern Michigan College’s Joseph H Rogers Observatory. The talk for the evening will be given by Grace Kolbusz, with the student astronomy club at Northwestern Michigan College, will present the program titled Astronomy Advancement Outside the Western World. After the meeting, weather permitting, there will be viewing of the Moon and Jupiter and whatever we can find in the twilight. The observatory is located on Birmley Rd. South of Traverse City between Garfield and Keystone roads. The meeting will also be available via Zoom. Instructions to join the meeting will be on the society’s website, gtastro.org.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EDT, UT – 4 hours). Times will be different for other locations.

Addendum

All I know about Grace’s talk is the title. It conjures up astronomy of different cultures, perhaps those of India, China or even the Maya in Central America. In the past I have delved with my December programs, for the GTAS, into ancient astronomies of other cultures. I’ve looked at the Egyptians, Babylonians and the Greeks. And dabbled a little bit with the Mayan culture in their studies of the motions of the planet Venus. So I’m interested in what she comes up with, so I don’t overlap.