Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Friday, June 5th. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 26 minutes, setting at 9:24, and it will rise tomorrow at 5:58. The Moon, 3 days before last quarter, will rise at 1:21 tomorrow morning.

The Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will host its June meeting tonight 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 an informal one. The Artemis 2 mission brought back a treasure trove of photographs of the earth the moon. We will be showing some of them and having everyone having a chance to comment on them, ask questions, explore them further or explain them. Afterward, about 10 PM if it’s clear, there will be viewing of the heavens through the observatory’s telescopes. The observatory is located on Birmley Rd. The meeting is also 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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