Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Native American Heritage Day, Friday, November 24th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 16 minutes, setting at 5:07, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:52. The Moon, 3 days before full, will set at 5:51 tomorrow morning.

My Heritage is from Northern and Eastern Europe, not one particular country. I have no desire to go or to learn too much more about The Old Countries. And growing up, I grew up in a white neighborhood went to white schools because people of other ethnicities didn’t live in our part of town so we had no mixing of cultures. So I grew up as an American with American cultural values, whatever that is. It was rather late in life, actually doing this program, that I got very interested in the culture of the Native Americans in our area the Anishinaabe, whose groups around here are the Chippewa, or Ojibwe and the Odawa, or Ottawa and learned of their stories and legends, especially those involving sky lore. I find it very interesting and just as rich as the culture we got from the Romans and Greeks. So from time to time on this program I’ll talk about various constellations and stories of our Native American neighbors.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (EST, UT –5 hours). They may be different for your location.

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