Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Thursday, April 30th. Today the Sun will be up for 14 hours and 12 minutes, setting at 8:46, and it will rise tomorrow at 6:32. The Moon, 1 day before full, will set at 6:03 tomorrow morning.

The Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will host its May meeting tomorrow, May 1st at 9 PM at Northwestern Michigan College’s Joseph H Rogers Observatory. The later meeting time through July allows us to have viewing after the meeting start in darker skies. The program is a video called the Space Race. I’m not sure if it was the one 6 decades ago in the 1960s or the current one, which is in doubt. It will be informative either way. Afterward, about 10 PM if it’s clear, there will be viewing of the heavens through the observatory’s telescopes, featuring Jupiter, its cloud bands and moons. The observatory is located on Birmley Rd. South of Traverse City. Also, available on ZOOM, see gtastro.org.

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.

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