03/14/2022 – Ephemeris – It’s Pi Day!

March 14, 2022 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Pi Day, Monday, March 14th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 50 minutes, setting at 7:47, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:55. The Moon, 4 days before full, will set at 7:10 tomorrow morning.

Mathematicians and scientists, both professional and amateur, celebrate Pi day to bake and eat pies. Actually, the Pi we’re talking about is the Greek letter π that signifies the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. March 14th can be written 3.14, π to two decimal places. Of course, if you wait until 4 pm to have your pie, you can have π to 4 decimal places, since 4 pm is the 16th hour of the day in military time. This gives 3.1416. The digits go on forever, never repeating a pattern. Some mathematicians prefer Tau Day, June 28th or 2 times π which is the more useful mathematical ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius, which is 6.28 or 6.2832. However you slice it, π is a very useful number.

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

Have a slice of Pi Day pie

Here’s a link to NASA’s Pi Day Challenge: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/nasapidaychallenge/. The link also has a link for educators for STEM related challenges.

Since recording this program, I learned about another Pi day some celebrate. A well-known approximation of pi is the fraction 22/7ths. Europeans and others write dates in day/month order, so July 22nd is also a Pi Day: 22/7.

03/11/2022 – Ephemeris – Looking at the northern part of the Moon and the crater Plato

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This is Ephemeris for Friday, March 11th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 41 minutes, setting at 6:43, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:00. The Moon, 1 day past first quarter, will set at 4:18 tomorrow morning.

As the Moon moves around the Earth, now one day past first quarter, more of it is revealed in sunlight. The top or north part of the moon is of interest now. The second-largest lunar sea, Mare Imbrium, or Sea of Showers, is now half illuminated by the advancing terminator, the sunrise line. That can be seen with the naked eye. With binoculars, in the mountains north or above Imbrium can be found the flat floored crater or walled plain called Plato. This crater is situated in the lunar Alps. Mountains on the Moon are named after their earthly counterparts. Visible in telescopes now will be the Alpine Valley cutting through the Alps just to the right of Plato. Each night from new to full, more of the Moon’s features are revealed near the terminator.

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.

Addendum

Moon first quarter plus 1 day hilighting Plato

The Moon tonight, a day past first quarter, March 11, 2022, outlining the Mare Imbrium, crater Plato area, which is seen in detail below. Created using Virtual Lunar Atlas.

The Crater Plato and the Alps

The Moon tonight, March 11, 2022, highlighting the crater Plato and lunar Alps. The Alpine Valley (Vallis Alpes), lies under the caption “Alpes” for the mountains. One of cool things to watch when the terminator is situated just right is to watch the shadows of the mountains retreat across Plato’s crater floor as the Sun rises. The shadows of the peaks appear very jagged as they retreat. Created using Virtual Lunar Atlas.

03/10/2022 – Ephemeris – Viewing the Moon at first quarter tonight

March 10, 2022 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Thursday, March 10th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 38 minutes, setting at 6:42, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:02. The Moon, at first quarter today, will set at 3:26 tomorrow morning.

By the time we spot the moon this evening, it will be over half a day from being exactly first quarter phase. Looking at the brighter part of the Moon in binoculars, which is at the bottom or south end. We are looking at the lunar highlands of mostly very old craters that extend back to the formation of the Moon, nearly 4.5 billion years ago, that weren’t obliterated by the asteroid strikes that created the darker maria or lunar seas half a billion years later. In small telescopes there is a vertical line of three large craters whose names, from largest to smallest and top down, are Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, and Arzachel. Alphonsus is a curious crater. In 1958 a Soviet astronomer recorded a possible volcanic eruption or outgassing from the crater floor.

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.

Addendum

Lunar craters Ptolemaeus Alphonsus Arzachel Outlined

Lunar craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel outlined on the Moon’s disk, at first quarter, at 8 pm, March 10, 2022. Created using Virtual Moon Atlas.

Closeup of lunar craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel

Closeup of lunar craters Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel, with other nearby craters, outlined above. Created using Virtual Moon Atlas.

03/09/2022 – Ephemeris – Let’s search for the naked-eye planets for this week

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This is Ephemeris for Wednesday, March 9th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 35 minutes, setting at 6:41, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:04. The Moon, 1 day before first quarter, will set at 2:28 tomorrow morning.

Let’s search for the naked-eye planets for this week. There are no bright planets in the evening sky. Jupiter, the last to leave, will stay too close to the direction of the Sun to be visible in the morning sky for at least a month. So that’s where the action shifts. Jupiter joins Mercury, Saturn, Venus and Mars. Late winter and early spring mornings aren’t the best for spotting planets close to the Sun, since they tend to lie low in the southeastern sky. Saturn and Mercury are also too close to the direction of the Sun to be spotted now. Venus will rise at 4:55 tomorrow morning and Mars will rise at 5:16. By 6:15, they will be low in the southeast, with much dimmer Mars at the 5 o’clock position below Venus.

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.

Addendum

The waxing crescent Moon

The waxing crescent Moon at 8 pm or an hour or so after sunset tonight, March 9, 2022. It is shown as it might be seen in binoculars or a small telescope. Created using Stellarium.

Morning planets at 6:15 am

Morning planets Venus and Mars at 6:15 am, or about 45 minutes before sunrise tomorrow, March 10, 2022. Created using Stellarium.

Venus through a telescope

Venus through a telescope as it would appear before sunrise tomorrow morning, March 10, 2022. It’s shown larger than usual, since it’s the only planet that looks like anything in a small telescope now. Its apparent diameter is 27.78″, and it is 44.0% illuminated by the Sun. Mars has an apparent diameter of 4.83″, and is slightly gibbous at 93.3% illuminated. (” means seconds of arc. 1″ is 1/3600th of a degree). Created using Stellarium, which is also the source for the apparent diameters and the illuminated fraction of Venus and Mars.

Planets and the Moon on a single night

The naked-eye planets and the Moon at sunset and sunrise on a single night, starting with sunset on the right on March 9, 2022. The night ends on the left with sunrise on the 10th. Notice that all the naked-eye planets are in the morning sky now. Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp program.

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03/08/2022 – Ephemeris – International Women’s Day

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This is Ephemeris for International Women’s Day, Tuesday, March 8th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 32 minutes, setting at 6:39, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:06. The Moon, 2 days before first quarter, will set at 1:25 tomorrow morning.

The planet Venus is the only major planet named after a goddess. Satellites of the planets are named after both male and female deities. When asteroids were discovered between Mars and Jupiter they began to receive female deity names, however errant asteroids that that came close to the Earth’s orbit received male names. Venus, named after the Roman goddess of love, by convention, has female names for its land forms. But before that convention was adopted the first bright radar feature found on Venus, in 1967, was Maxwell Montes, named after James Clerk Maxwell whose work in the 19th century predicted radio waves. It is by reflected radio waves (radar) by which that feature had been found using the Arecibo radio telescope.

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.

Addendum

Venus Map

Radar map of Venus produced by the radar altimeter of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter, 1978-1992. Note Maxwell Montes at the top, part of Ishtar Terra, a continent-like land mass. Another large land mass is Aphrodite Terra in the center right. Click on the image to enlarge it.  Credit: NASA.

03/07/2022 – Ephemeris – The Fisher announces the beginning of the Maple sugaring season

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This is Ephemeris for Monday, March 7th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 28 minutes, setting at 6:38, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:07. The Moon, 3 days before first quarter, will set at 12:19 tomorrow morning.

March is a month of transitions. The stars of the winter skies, that is Orion and his merry band of bright stars, move to the west as those of spring rise in the east. The Big Dipper is ascending in the northeastern sky, after lying low in the north during the long dark evenings in the heart of winter. The dipper is the hind end of the Great Bear, officially Ursa Major. The Anishinaabe peoples of the Great Lakes region saw the Big Dipper as the hind end and tail of a magical creature called Fisher, or in their language Ojiig, who brought summer to the Earth. Its position in the sky around the pole announces the seasons. The Fisher’s ascension high into the northeastern sky signals this month’s maple sugaring season.

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.

Addendum

Fisher announcing maple sugaring season - animation

The Fisher announcing maple sugaring season – animation. Star positions for about 2 hours after sunset, near 45 degrees north latitude, for a week into March. Created using Stellarium and GIMP.

For the story of how the Fisher brought summer to the earth, and why he’s got an arrow sticking into his tail, click here.

03/04/2022 – Ephemeris – Tonight, an illustrated Zoom talk: “Light Pollution: Cause and Effect”

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This is Ephemeris for Friday, March 4th. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 19 minutes, setting at 6:34, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:13. The Moon, 2 days past new, will set at 8:56 this evening.

The Grand Traverse Astronomical Society (GTAS) will hold a virtual meeting and program at 8 pm tonight via Zoom. For the program, Dr. Jerry Dobek, astronomy professor at Northwestern Michigan College, will present an illustrated talk – Light Pollution: Cause and Effect. The focus of the talk will be on the general causes and effects of light pollution, as well as examples of proper lighting. Dr. Dobek has helped write lighting ordinances for governments here and around the nation. A virtual star party will start around 9 pm, also hosted by Dr. Dobek, but only if it’s clear in Traverse City. It will feature the wonders of the winter and early spring sky. Instructions to join the meeting and a link can be found on the society’s website, gtastro.org. All are welcome.

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.

Addendum

Michigan lights at night from space

Michigan lights at night from space, with pointer to Traverse City. Image credit: NASA, animation created using LibreOffice and GIMP.

If COVID-19 stays tamped down this spring and summer, the GTAS will be working with the rangers of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to schedule monthly sun and star parties. The areas of the park we observe from are generally northwest (above, left in the image above) of Traverse City, near the shore of Lake Michigan.

03/03/2022 – Ephemeris – Finding Cancer the crab

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This is Ephemeris for Thursday, March 3rd. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 16 minutes, setting at 6:33, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:15. The Moon, 1 day past new, will set at 7:46 this evening.

The constellation of Cancer the crab is made of dim stars, which are generally connected, in constellation charts, with lines that make either the letter K or an upside down Y, which lie directly between the star pair Castor and Pollux in Gemini and Regulus in Leo. In the center of the constellation is, what to the naked-eye is a fuzzy spot called Praesepe, or the manger. The two nearby stars, one to the northeast, and one to the southeast are Asellus Borealis, and Asellus Australis, the northern and southern donkey colts feeding out of the manger. Viewing that fuzzy spot with a pair of binoculars will reveal that it’s not fuzzy at all. It resolves into a cluster of stars, which astronomers, over the years, have called the Beehive cluster. Back in the first and second century CE, the Sun entered Cancer to begin the season of summer. It’s now just a transitional constellation between the winter and spring evening skies.

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.

Addendum

Cancer the Crab

Cancer, the crab finder chart. Note the beehive cluster, also known to amateur astronomers as M44, along with other catalog names. Prior to the invention of the telescope this cluster was known as Praesepe which means “Manger”. Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using Stellarium and GIMP.

Closer look at Cancer

A closer look at Cancer, noting the donkey stars Asellus Borealis and Australis feeding at the manger, Praesepe or M44, aka: the Beehive Cluster. Created using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts) and LibreOffice for captions. Adapted from a chart I created for the March 2022 issue of the GTAS newsletter, the Stellar Sentinel.

03/02/2023 – Ephemeris – Let’s search for the naked-eye planets for this week

March 2, 2022 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Ash Wednesday, March 2nd. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 13 minutes, setting at 6:31, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:16. The Moon is new today, and won’t be visible.

Let’s search for the naked-eye planets for this week. The last evening planet, Jupiter, will pass behind the Sun this Saturday and enter the morning sky. So the action shifts to the morning sky, where Saturn, Mercury, Venus and Mars reside. Saturn and Mercury are too close to the direction of the Sun to be spotted now. Mercury is heading back toward the Sun. Saturn should be able to be spotted in morning twilight in a few weeks as it joins Venus, our brilliant morning star, and Mars in the southeast about half an hour to 45 minutes before sunrise. Tomorrow morning Mars will be below, and right of bright Venus, which will rise at 5 am, with Mars following at 5:26.

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.

Addendum

Venus and Mars in the morning

Venus and Mars in the morning as they might appear at 6:30 am, about 45 minutes before sunrise, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Created using Stellarium.

Venus through a telescope

Venus through a telescope as it would appear before sunrise tomorrow morning, March 3, 2022. It’s shown larger than usual, since it’s the only planet that looks like anything in a small telescope now. Its apparent diameter is 30.49″, and it is 39.7% illuminated by the Sun. Mars has an apparent diameter of 4.73″.
(” means seconds of arc. 1″ is 1/3600th of a degree). Created using Stellarium, which is also the source for the apparent diameters and the illuminated fraction of Venus.

Planets and the Moon on a single night

The naked-eye planets and the Moon at sunset and sunrise on a single night, starting with sunset on the right on March 2, 2022. The night ends on the left with sunrise on the 3rd. There’s a label pile up in the sunrise panel where the Labels for Saturn and Mercury overlay each other. Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp program.

03/01/2022 – Ephemeris – Previewing March skies

March 1, 2022 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Fat Tuesday, March 1st. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 10 minutes, setting at 6:30, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:18. The Moon, 1 day before new, will rise at 7:44 tomorrow morning.

Let’s look at the skies for the month of March. The Sun will cross the celestial equator in March as the promising season of spring will begin. Daylight hours in the Interlochen/Traverse City area and will increase from 11 hours and 10 minutes today to 12 hours 43 minutes on the 31st. The altitude, or angle, of the Sun above the southern horizon at local noon will be just under 38 degrees today and will ascend to nearly 50 degrees on the 31st. The altitude of the Sun in the Straits area will be a degree lower. Local apparent noon this month, when the Sun passes due south, will be about 12:51 p.m. and an hour later when Daylight Saving Time starts on the 13th. Spring will begin on the 20th at 11:33 am.

Addendum

March Evening Star Chart

March Evening Star Chart

Star Chart for March 2022 (10 pm EDT, March 15, 2022). Click on the image to enlarge it. Created using my LookingUp program.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 10 p.m. EDT in the evening and 6 a.m. for the morning chart. These are the chart times. Note that Traverse City is located approximately 45 minutes behind our time meridian. (An hour and 45 minutes behind our Daylight Saving Time meridian during EDT). To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere (rotating star finder) you may have to set it to 45 minutes or 1 hour 45 minutes earlier than your current time.

Note the chart times of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. are for the 15th. For each week before the 15th, add ½ hour (28 minutes if you’re picky). For each week after the 15th, subtract ½ hour. For planet positions on dates other than the 15th, check the Wednesday planet posts on this blog.

March Morning Star Chart

March Morning Star Chart

Star Chart for March mornings, 2022 (6 a.m. EDT March 15, 2022). Click on image to enlarge. Created using my LookingUp program.

Only Venus of all the morning planets has yet to rise at chart time on the 15th.

For a list of constellation names to go with the abbreviations click here.

  • Pointer stars at the front of the bowl of the Big Dipper point to Polaris the North Star.
  • The leaky bowl of the Big Dipper drips on Leo.
  • Follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper to the star Arcturus, and
  • Extend it as a spike to Spica.
  • The Summer Triangle appears in red.

Twilight Limits, Nautical and Astronomical

EST/EDT
Morning Twilight Evening Twilight Dark Night Moon
Date Astro. Nautical Nautical Astro. Start End Illum.
2022-03-01 5h44m 6h18m 19h32m 20h06m 20h06m 5h44m 0
2022-03-02 5h42m 6h16m 19h33m 20h07m 20h07m 5h42m 0
2022-03-03 5h40m 6h14m 19h35m 20h09m 20h09m 5h40m 0.03
2022-03-04 5h39m 6h13m 19h36m 20h10m 20h57m 5h39m 0.07
2022-03-05 5h37m 6h11m 19h37m 20h11m 22h06m 5h37m 0.13
2022-03-06 5h35m 6h09m 19h39m 20h13m 23h13m 5h35m 0.21
2022-03-07 5h33m 6h07m 19h40m 20h14m 5h33m 0.29
2022-03-08 5h31m 6h05m 19h41m 20h15m 0h20m 5h31m 0.38
2022-03-09 5h30m 6h04m 19h43m 20h17m 1h25m 5h30m 0.48
2022-03-10 5h28m 6h02m 19h44m 20h18m 2h28m 5h28m 0.57
2022-03-11 5h26m 6h00m 19h45m 20h19m 3h26m 5h26m 0.66
2022-03-12 5h24m 5h58m 19h46m 20h21m 4h18m 5h24m 0.75
2022-03-13 6h22m 6h56m 20h48m 21h22m 6h03m 6h22m 0.83
2022-03-14 6h20m 6h54m 20h49m 21h24m 0.9
2022-03-15 6h18m 6h53m 20h50m 21h25m 0.95
2022-03-16 6h16m 6h51m 20h52m 21h26m 0.99
2022-03-17 6h14m 6h49m 20h53m 21h28m 1
2022-03-18 6h12m 6h47m 20h54m 21h29m 0.99
2022-03-19 6h10m 6h45m 20h56m 21h31m 21h31m 21h42m 0.96
2022-03-20 6h12m 6h47m 21h01m 21h36m 21h36m 22h58m 0.9
2022-03-21 6h10m 6h45m 21h02m 21h37m 21h37m 0.82
2022-03-22 6h08m 6h43m 21h04m 21h39m 21h39m 0h15m 0.73
2022-03-23 6h06m 6h41m 21h05m 21h40m 21h40m 1h34m 0.62
2022-03-24 6h04m 6h39m 21h06m 21h42m 21h42m 2h50m 0.5
2022-03-25 6h02m 6h37m 21h08m 21h43m 21h43m 3h59m 0.39
2022-03-26 6h00m 6h35m 21h09m 21h45m 21h45m 4h57m 0.28
2022-03-27 5h58m 6h33m 21h10m 21h46m 21h46m 5h43m 0.19
2022-03-28 5h55m 6h31m 21h12m 21h48m 21h48m 5h55m 0.11
2022-03-29 5h53m 6h29m 21h13m 21h49m 21h49m 5h53m 0.05
2022-03-30 5h51m 6h27m 21h15m 21h51m 21h51m 5h51m 0.01
2022-03-31 5h49m 6h25m 21h16m 21h52m 21h52m 5h49m 0

Twilight calendar was generated using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts).

See my blog post: Twilight Zone for the definitions of the different periods of twilight here: https://bobmoler.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/

NASA Calendar of Planetary Events

     Date    Time     Event
Mar  1  Tu            Venus: 45° W
     2  We  10:48 am  Mercury-Saturn: 0.7° N
     2  We  12:35 pm  New Moon
     5  Sa   7:51 am  Jupiter Solar Conjunction
     8  Tu   3:22 am  Moon Ascending Node
    10  Th   5:45 am  First Quarter
    10  Th   6:05 pm  Moon Apogee: 404,300 km
    11  Fr   7:14 pm  Moon Northernmost Declination: 26.7° N
    13  Su   1:58 am  Moon-Pollux: 2.6° N
    13  Su   6:08 am  Neptune Solar Conjunction
    14  Mo   3:55 am  Moon-Beehive: 3.7° S
    15  Tu  11:12 pm  Venus-Mars: 3.9° N
    18  Fr   3:17 am  Full Worm Moon
    20  Su   5:59 am  Venus Elongation: 46.6° West
    20  Su  11:33 am  Vernal Equinox
    22  Tu   4:12 am  Moon Descending Node
    23  We   7:28 pm  Moon Perigee: 369,800 km
    25  Fr   1:37 am  Last Quarter
    25  Fr   7:58 am  Moon Southernmost Declination: 26.8° S
    27  Su  10:54 pm  Moon-Mars: 4.2° N
    28  Mo   5:50 am  Moon-Venus: 6.9° N
    28  Mo   7:43 am  Moon-Saturn: 4.5° N
    28  Mo   8:53 pm  Venus-Saturn: 2.1° N
Apr  1  Fr            Venus: 46.1° W

All event times are given for UTC-5:00: Eastern Standard Time before the 14th or UTC-4:00 Daylight Saving Time thereafter.

Sky Events Calendar by Fred Espenak and Sumit Dutta (NASA’s GSFC),
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html

If you go to the above site you can print out a list like the above for the entire year or calendar pages for your time zone.

Note that the site is now kept up for archival purposes. Fred Espenak retired from NASA several years ago and has his own site, AstroPixels, which contain the same information: http://astropixels.com/almanac/almanac.html.

Sun and Moon Rising and Setting Events

LU             Ephemeris of Sky Events for Interlochen/TC
March, 2022    Local time zone: EST
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| DATE |  SUN     SUN  DAYLIGHT|   TWILIGHT*    |MOON  RISE OR    ILLUM |
|      |  RISE    SET    HOURS |  END    START  |PHASE SET** TIME FRACTN|
+=======================================================================+
|Tue  1| 07:20a  06:30p  11:10 | 07:33p  06:17a |      Rise 07:44a    1%|
|Wed  2| 07:18a  06:31p  11:13 | 07:35p  06:15a |New   Set  06:32p    0%|
|Thu  3| 07:16a  06:33p  11:16 | 07:36p  06:13a |      Set  07:46p    2%|
|Fri  4| 07:15a  06:34p  11:19 | 07:37p  06:12a |      Set  08:56p    6%|
|Sat  5| 07:13a  06:35p  11:22 | 07:39p  06:10a |      Set  10:05p   12%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun  6| 07:11a  06:37p  11:25 | 07:40p  06:08a |      Set  11:13p   19%|
|Mon  7| 07:09a  06:38p  11:28 | 07:41p  06:06a |      Set  12:19a   27%|
|Tue  8| 07:07a  06:39p  11:32 | 07:42p  06:04a |      Set  01:25a   36%|
|Wed  9| 07:06a  06:41p  11:35 | 07:44p  06:03a |      Set  02:28a   46%|
|Thu 10| 07:04a  06:42p  11:38 | 07:45p  06:01a |F Qtr Set  03:26a   55%|
|Fri 11| 07:02a  06:43p  11:41 | 07:46p  05:59a |      Set  04:18a   64%|
|Sat 12| 07:00a  06:45p  11:44 | 07:48p  05:57a |      Set  05:02a   73%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
| EDT  |      Time Change      |                |                       |
|Sun 13| 07:58a  07:46p  11:47 | 08:49p  06:55a |      Set  06:39a   81%|
|Mon 14| 07:56a  07:47p  11:50 | 08:50p  06:53a |      Set  07:10a   88%|
|Tue 15| 07:55a  07:49p  11:53 | 08:52p  06:52a |      Set  07:36a   94%|
|Wed 16| 07:53a  07:50p  11:57 | 08:53p  06:50a |      Set  07:59a   98%|
|Thu 17| 07:51a  07:51p  12:00 | 08:54p  06:48a |      Set  08:20a  100%|
|Fri 18| 07:49a  07:52p  12:03 | 08:56p  06:46a |Full  Rise 08:28p   99%|
|Sat 19| 07:47a  07:54p  12:06 | 08:57p  06:44a |      Rise 09:42p   96%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 20| 07:45a  07:55p  12:09 | 08:58p  06:42a |      Rise 10:57p   91%|
|Mon 21| 07:43a  07:56p  12:12 | 09:00p  06:40a |      Rise 12:15a   84%|
|Tue 22| 07:42a  07:57p  12:15 | 09:01p  06:38a |      Rise 01:34a   75%|
|Wed 23| 07:40a  07:59p  12:18 | 09:02p  06:36a |      Rise 02:50a   64%|
|Thu 24| 07:38a  08:00p  12:22 | 09:04p  06:34a |      Rise 03:59a   53%|
|Fri 25| 07:36a  08:01p  12:25 | 09:05p  06:32a |L Qtr Rise 04:56a   41%|
|Sat 26| 07:34a  08:02p  12:28 | 09:06p  06:30a |      Rise 05:42a   30%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 27| 07:32a  08:04p  12:31 | 09:08p  06:28a |      Rise 06:18a   21%|
|Mon 28| 07:30a  08:05p  12:34 | 09:09p  06:26a |      Rise 06:47a   12%|
|Tue 29| 07:29a  08:06p  12:37 | 09:11p  06:24a |      Rise 07:10a    6%|
|Wed 30| 07:27a  08:07p  12:40 | 09:12p  06:22a |      Rise 07:31a    2%|
|Thu 31| 07:25a  08:09p  12:43 | 09:13p  06:20a |      Rise 07:51a    0%|
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* Nautical Twilight
** Moonrise or moonset, whichever occurs between sunrise and sunset

Created using my LookingUp for DOS output as text.