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Ephemeris: 06/10/2025 – Tonight’s Strawberry Moon

June 10, 2025 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Tuesday, June 10th. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 30 minutes, setting at 9:27, and it will rise tomorrow at 5:56. The Moon, 1 day before full, will set at 5:36 tomorrow morning.

The actual instant that the Moon will be full, that is opposite the Sun in the sky, will be 3:44 tomorrow morning. So tonight’s full moon will be fuller than tomorrow night’s Moon. This month’s full moon is also called the Strawberry Moon by Native Americans, because this is the month that strawberries ripen. Also, the term honeymoon comes from the fact that many weddings are in June, when the full moon is low in the sky in the south and has a yellowish or honey color due to haze and atmospheric preferential scattering of blue light. The darker areas of the Moon give the effect of a face called the Man in the Moon. There is also a rabbit in the Moon, curled around the upper edge, with head and ears to the right and body to the left.

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.

Addendum

The Rabbit in the Moon. To the Chinese it is the Jade Rabbit Yutu, pet of Chang'e the Moon goddess.
The Rabbit in the Moon. To the Chinese it is the Jade Rabbit, Yutu pounding medicine, pet of Chang’e the Moon goddess.
Tonight’s full Moon on the meridian (due south) at 1:36 AM. Its altitude, of 16 1/2° is lower than usual because it is currently near its maximum extent south of the ecliptic. The Z with a cross marks the zenith. Created using Stellarium, LibreOffice Draw, and GIMP.
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05/31/2022 – Ephemeris – Let’s preview the sunny month of June

May 31, 2022 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Tuesday, May 31st. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 19 minutes, setting at 9:20, and it will rise tomorrow at 6:00. The Moon, 1 day past new, will set at 10:56 this evening.

Let’s preview June skies. There will be a lot of sun in June and very little night. The daylight hours will increase a bit from 15 hours and 21 minutes Tomorrow to 15 hours and 34 minutes on the 21st, retreating back to 15 hours 31 minutes at month’s end. The altitude of the Sun above the southern horizon at local noon will hover around 68 to 69 degrees. Local noon, when the Sun is actually due south, will occur at about 1:43 p.m. Summer begins on the 21st at 5:14 am, when the Sun reaches its farthest north. The actual amount of nighttime will be quite short, mostly due to the length of daylight, but also because twilight lasts much longer than average because the Sun sets at a shallow angle. On the 21st, there’s theoretically only 3 ½ hours of total darkness if the Moon wasn’t up.

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

June Evening Star Chart

June Evening Star Chart

Star Chart for June 2022 (11 p.m. EDT June 15, 2022). Created using my LookingUp program. Click on image to enlarge.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 11 p.m. EDT in the evening and 4 a.m. for the morning chart. These are the chart times. Note that Interlochen/Traverse City is located approximately 45 minutes behind our time meridian, West 75° longitude. (An hour 45 minutes behind our daylight saving time meridian during EDT). To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere you may have to set it to 1 hour 45 minutes earlier than the current time.
Note the chart times of 11 p.m. and 4 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, or 28 minutes. The planet positions are updated each Wednesday on this blog. For planet positions on dates other than the 15th, check the Wednesday planet posts on this blog for weekly positions.

June Morning Star Chart

Star Chart June Morning

Star Chart for June mornings, 2022 (4 am EDT, June 15, 2022). Created using my LookingUp program. Click on image to enlarge.

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.
  • Leaky dipper drips on Leo
  • Follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper to the star Arcturus, and
  • Extend like a spike to Spica,

Twilight Limits, Nautical and Astronomical

EDT
Morning Twilight Evening Twilight Dark Night Moon
Date Astro. Nautical Nautical Astro. Start End Illum.
2022-06-01 3h44m 4h42m 22h47m 23h46m 23h49m 3h44m 0.07
2022-06-02 3h42m 4h42m 22h48m 23h47m – 3h42m 0.12
2022-06-03 3h41m 4h41m 22h49m 23h49m 0h34m 3h41m 0.19
2022-06-04 3h40m 4h40m 22h50m 23h50m 1h11m 3h40m 0.27
2022-06-05 3h39m 4h39m 22h51m 23h52m 1h41m 3h39m 0.36
2022-06-06 3h38m 4h39m 22h52m 23h53m 2h07m 3h38m 0.46
2022-06-07 3h37m 4h38m 22h53m 23h54m 2h29m 3h37m 0.56
2022-06-08 3h36m 4h38m 22h54m 23h56m 2h49m 3h36m 0.66
2022-06-09 3h35m 4h37m 22h55m 23h57m 3h09m 3h35m 0.76
2022-06-10 3h34m 4h37m 22h55m 23h58m 3h29m 3h34m 0.85
2022-06-11 3h34m 4h37m 22h56m 23h59m – – 0.92
2022-06-12 3h33m 4h36m 22h57m 0h00m – – 0.98
2022-06-13 3h33m 4h36m 22h57m 0h01m – – 1
2022-06-14 3h32m 4h36m 22h58m 0h02m – – 0.99
2022-06-15 3h32m 4h36m 22h59m 0h02m – – 0.95
2022-06-16 3h32m 4h36m 22h59m 0h03m – – 0.89
2022-06-17 3h32m 4h36m 22h59m 0h04m 0h04m 0h18m 0.81
2022-06-18 3h32m 4h36m 23h00m 0h04m 0h04m 0h56m 0.71
2022-06-19 3h32m 4h36m 23h00m 0h05m 0h05m 1h25m 0.6
2022-06-20 3h32m 4h36m 23h00m 0h05m 0h05m 1h49m 0.49
2022-06-21 3h32m 4h36m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 2h10m 0.39
2022-06-22 3h32m 4h37m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 2h29m 0.29
2022-06-23 3h33m 4h37m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 2h48m 0.21
2022-06-24 3h33m 4h37m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 3h09m 0.13
2022-06-25 3h34m 4h38m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 3h32m 0.08
2022-06-26 3h34m 4h38m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 3h34m 0.03
2022-06-27 3h35m 4h39m 23h01m 0h05m 0h05m 3h35m 0.01
2022-06-28 3h36m 4h39m 23h01m 0h04m 0h04m 3h36m 0
2022-06-29 3h37m 4h40m 23h00m 0h04m 0h04m 3h37m 0.01
2022-06-30 3h38m 4h41m 23h00m 0h03m 0h03m 3h38m 0.04

The twilight calendar was generated using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts), with some corrections.

See my blog post: Twilight Zone for the definitions of the different periods of twilight here: https://bobmoler.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/.

NASA Calendar of Planetary Events

Jun  1  We            Venus: 36.5° W
     1  We   6:32 pm  Moon North Dec.: 26.9° N
     1  We   9:14 pm  Moon Apogee: 406,200 km
     3  Fr   1:42 am  Moon-Pollux: 2.4° N
     4  Sa   3:17 am  Moon-Beehive: 4° S
     7  Tu  10:48 am  First Quarter
    12  Su   6:02 am  Moon Descending Node
    14  Tu   7:52 am  Full Strawberry Moon (Super Moon)
    14  Tu   7:21 pm  Moon Perigee: 357,400 km
    15  We   6:59 am  Moon South Dec.: 26.9° S
    16  Th  10:59 am  Mercury Elongation: 23.2° W
    18  Sa   8:22 am  Moon-Saturn: 4.3° N
    20  Mo  11:11 pm  Last Quarter
    21  Tu   5:14 am  Summer Solstice
    21  Tu   9:31 am  Moon-Jupiter: 2.9° N
    22  We   2:05 pm  Mercury-Aldebaran: 2.9° N
    22  We   2:16 pm  Moon-Mars: 1° N
    22  We   8:53 pm  Venus-Pleiades: 5.7° S
    25  Sa   3:10 am  Moon Ascending Node
    25  Sa   5:27 pm  Moon-Pleiades: 3.9° N
    26  Su   4:11 am  Moon-Venus: 3° S
    28  Tu  10:52 pm  New Moon
    29  We  12:06 am  Moon North Dec.: 26.9° N
    29  We   2:08 am  Moon Apogee: 406,600 km
    30  Th  10:45 pm  Venus-Aldebaran: 4.1° N
Jul  1  Fr            Venus: 29.6° W

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

Sun and Moon Rising and Setting Events

LU                  Ephemeris of Sky Events for Interlochen/TC
June, 2022    Local time zone: EDT
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| DATE |  SUN     SUN  DAYLIGHT|   TWILIGHT*    |MOON  RISE OR    ILLUM |
|      |  RISE    SET    HOURS |  END    START  |PHASE SET** TIME FRACTN|
+=======================================================================+
|Wed  1| 06:00a  09:21p  15:21 | 10:44p  04:37a |      Set  11:49p    6%|
|Thu  2| 05:59a  09:22p  15:22 | 10:45p  04:36a |      Set  12:34a   11%|
|Fri  3| 05:59a  09:23p  15:23 | 10:46p  04:35a |      Set  01:11a   17%|
|Sat  4| 05:58a  09:23p  15:24 | 10:47p  04:35a |      Set  01:41a   25%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun  5| 05:58a  09:24p  15:26 | 10:48p  04:34a |      Set  02:06a   34%|
|Mon  6| 05:58a  09:25p  15:27 | 10:49p  04:33a |      Set  02:28a   44%|
|Tue  7| 05:57a  09:25p  15:28 | 10:50p  04:33a |F Qtr Set  02:49a   54%|
|Wed  8| 05:57a  09:26p  15:29 | 10:51p  04:32a |      Set  03:08a   64%|
|Thu  9| 05:57a  09:27p  15:29 | 10:52p  04:32a |      Set  03:29a   74%|
|Fri 10| 05:57a  09:27p  15:30 | 10:53p  04:31a |      Set  03:52a   83%|
|Sat 11| 05:56a  09:28p  15:31 | 10:53p  04:31a |      Set  04:19a   91%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 12| 05:56a  09:28p  15:32 | 10:54p  04:31a |      Set  04:54a   97%|
|Mon 13| 05:56a  09:29p  15:32 | 10:55p  04:30a |      Set  05:41a  100%|
|Tue 14| 05:56a  09:29p  15:33 | 10:55p  04:30a |Full  Rise 10:22p  100%|
|Wed 15| 05:56a  09:30p  15:33 | 10:56p  04:30a |      Rise 11:27p   96%|
|Thu 16| 05:56a  09:30p  15:34 | 10:56p  04:30a |      Rise 12:17a   91%|
|Fri 17| 05:56a  09:30p  15:34 | 10:57p  04:30a |      Rise 12:55a   82%|
|Sat 18| 05:56a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:57p  04:30a |      Rise 01:25a   73%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 19| 05:56a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:57p  04:30a |      Rise 01:49a   62%|
|Mon 20| 05:57a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:30a |L Qtr Rise 02:09a   51%|
|Tue 21| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:30a |      Rise 02:28a   41%|
|Wed 22| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |      Rise 02:48a   31%|
|Thu 23| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |      Rise 03:08a   22%|
|Fri 24| 05:58a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |      Rise 03:31a   15%|
|Sat 25| 05:58a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:32a |      Rise 03:59a    9%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 26| 05:58a  09:32p  15:33 | 10:58p  04:32a |      Rise 04:32a    4%|
|Mon 27| 05:59a  09:32p  15:33 | 10:58p  04:33a |      Rise 05:13a    1%|
|Tue 28| 05:59a  09:32p  15:32 | 10:58p  04:33a |New   Set  09:44p    0%|
|Wed 29| 06:00a  09:32p  15:32 | 10:58p  04:34a |      Set  10:32p    1%|
|Thu 30| 06:00a  09:32p  15:31 | 10:57p  04:34a |      Set  11:11p    3%|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
* Nautical Twilight
** Moonrise or moonset, whichever occurs between sunrise and sunset

Generated using my LookingUp for DOS program.

Categories: Ephemeris Program, Month preview Tags:

06/01/2021 – Ephemeris – Previewing June Skies

June 1, 2021 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Tuesday, June 1st. Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 21 minutes, setting at 9:21, and it will rise tomorrow at 5:59. The Moon, 1 day before last quarter, will rise at 2:49 tomorrow morning.

This is the 46th anniversary of this program as we start our 47th orbit of the Sun. Let’s take a look at June skies. There will be a lot of Sunshine this month. The daylight hours will increase a bit from 15 hours and 21 minutes today to 15 hours and 34 minutes on the 21st, retreating back to 15 hours 31 minutes at month’s end. At this time of the year the sunset times for Ludington, Interlochen, Petoskey and Mackinaw City are very nearly the same. However, the sunrise times are at their most divergent. With Ludington’s sunrise being 14 minutes later than Mackinaw City’s. The altitude of the Sun above the southern horizon at local noon (1:44 pm in Interlochen) on the solstice, June 20th will be 68 and three-quarters degrees in Interlochen. Summer will start at 11:32 pm that night.

The big event this month will be a sunrise partial eclipse on the 10th. I’ll have more information next week.

The astronomical event times given are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan. They may be different for your location.

Addendum

June Evening Star Chart

Evening Star Chart for June 2021

Star Chart for June 2021 (11 p.m. EDT June 15, 2021). Created using my LookingUp program. Click on image to enlarge.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 11 p.m. EDT in the evening and 4 a.m. for the morning chart. These are the chart times. Note that Interlochen/Traverse City is located approximately 45 minutes behind our time meridian, West 75° longitude. (An hour 45 minutes behind our daylight saving time meridian during EDT). To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere you may have to set it to 1 hour 45 minutes earlier than the current time.
Note the chart times of 11 p.m. and 5 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, or 28 minutes. The planet positions are updated each Wednesday on this blog. For planet positions on dates other than the 15th, check the Wednesday planet posts on this blog for weekly positions.

June Morning Star Chart

Star chart for June mornings

Star Chart for June mornings 2021 (4 am EDT June 15, 2021). Created using my LookingUp program. Click on image to enlarge.

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.
  • Leaky dipper drips on Leo
  • Follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper to the star Arcturus, and
  • Extend like a spike to Spica,

Twilight Limits, Nautical and Astronomical

      EDT        
  Morning Twilight Evening Twilight Dark Night Moon
Date Astro. Nautical Nautical Astro. Start End Illum.
2021-06-01 3h42m 4h42m 22h47m 23h46m 23h46m 2h23m 0.51
2021-06-02 3h41m 4h41m 22h48m 23h48m 23h48m 2h49m 0.41
2021-06-03 3h40m 4h40m 22h49m 23h49m 23h49m 3h11m 0.32
2021-06-04 3h39m 4h39m 22h50m 23h51m 23h51m 3h30m 0.23
2021-06-05 3h38m 4h39m 22h51m 23h52m 23h52m 3h38m 0.16
2021-06-06 3h37m 4h38m 22h52m 23h54m 23h54m 3h37m 0.09
2021-06-07 3h36m 4h38m 22h53m 23h55m 23h55m 3h36m 0.05
2021-06-08 3h35m 4h37m 22h54m 23h56m 23h56m 3h35m 0.01
2021-06-09 3h34m 4h37m 22h55m 23h57m 23h57m 3h34m 0
2021-06-10 3h33m 4h36m 22h55m 23h58m 23h58m 3h33m 0.01
2021-06-11 3h33m 4h36m 22h56m 23h59m 23h59m 3h33m 0.03
2021-06-12 3h32m 4h36m 22h57m 0h00m 0h00m 3h32m 0.07
2021-06-13 3h32m 4h35m 22h58m 0h01m 0h01m 3h32m 0.13
2021-06-14 3h31m 4h35m 22h58m 0h02m 0h26m 3h31m 0.21
2021-06-15 3h31m 4h35m 22h59m 0h03m 1h01m 3h31m 0.3
2021-06-16 3h31m 4h35m 22h59m 0h03m 1h30m 3h31m 0.4
2021-06-17 3h31m 4h35m 23h00m 0h04m 1h55m 3h31m 0.5
2021-06-18 3h31m 4h35m 23h00m 0h05m 2h18m 3h31m 0.62
2021-06-19 3h31m 4h35m 23h00m 0h05m 2h41m 3h31m 0.72
2021-06-20 3h31m 4h35m 23h01m 0h05m 3h05m 3h31m 0.82
2021-06-21 3h31m 4h36m 23h01m 0h05m 3h31m 3h31m 0.91
2021-06-22 3h31m 4h36m 23h01m 0h06m – – 0.96
2021-06-23 3h32m 4h36m 23h01m 0h06m – – 1
2021-06-24 3h32m 4h37m 23h01m 0h06m – – 1
2021-06-25 3h33m 4h37m 23h01m 0h05m – – 0.97
2021-06-26 3h33m 4h38m 23h01m 0h05m – – 0.92
2021-06-27 3h34m 4h38m 23h01m 0h05m – – 0.85
2021-06-28 3h35m 4h39m 23h01m 0h04m 0h04m 0h22m 0.76
2021-06-29 3h36m 4h39m 23h00m 0h04m 0h04m 0h50m 0.67
2021-06-30 3h37m 4h40m 23h00m 0h03m 0h03m 1h14m 0.57

The twilight calendar was generated using Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts), with some corrections.

See my blog post: Twilight Zone for the definitions of the different periods of twilight here: https://bobmoler.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/.

NASA Calendar of Planetary Events

Jun  1  Tu            Venus: 17.5° E
     1  Tu   4:57 am  Moon-Jupiter: 4.9° N
     2  We   3:24 am  Last Quarter
     7  Mo  10:27 pm  Moon Apogee: 406200 km
     9  We  12:42 pm  Moon Ascending Node
    10  Th   6:43 am  Annular Solar Eclipse*
    10  Th   6:53 am  New Moon
    10  Th   9:06 pm  Mercury Inferior Conj.
    12  Sa  12:11 am  Moon North Dec.: 25.6° N
    12  Sa   2:44 am  Moon-Venus: 1.6° S
    13  Su   3:52 pm  Moon-Mars: 3° S
    14  Mo   2:47 am  Moon-Beehive: 3.1° S
    17  Th  11:54 pm  First Quarter
    20  Su  11:32 pm  Summer Solstice
    21  Mo  11:57 am  Venus-Pollux: 5.2° S
    22  Tu   4:54 pm  Mercury-Aldebaran: 6.4° N
    23  We   1:21 am  Mars-Beehive: 0.3° S
    23  We   2:07 am  Moon Descending Node
    23  We   5:58 am  Moon Perigee: 360000 km
    24  Th   2:40 pm  Full Moon
    25  Fr   1:49 am  Moon South Dec.: 25.6° S
    27  Su   5:30 am  Moon-Saturn: 4.1° N
    28  Mo   2:38 pm  Moon-Jupiter: 4.6° N

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

Sun and Moon Rising and Setting Events

LU                  Ephemeris of Sky Events for Interlochen/TC
June, 2021    Local time zone: EDT
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| DATE |  SUN     SUN  DAYLIGHT|   TWILIGHT*    |MOON  RISE OR    ILLUM |
|      |  RISE    SET    HOURS |  END    START  |PHASE SET** TIME FRACTN|
+=======================================================================+
|Tue  1| 06:00a  09:21p  15:21 | 10:45p  04:37a |      Rise 02:49a   53%|
|Wed  2| 05:59a  09:22p  15:22 | 10:46p  04:36a |L Qtr Rise 03:10a   43%|
|Thu  3| 05:59a  09:23p  15:23 | 10:47p  04:35a |      Rise 03:30a   33%|
|Fri  4| 05:58a  09:23p  15:25 | 10:48p  04:34a |      Rise 03:49a   25%|
|Sat  5| 05:58a  09:24p  15:26 | 10:49p  04:34a |      Rise 04:09a   17%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun  6| 05:58a  09:25p  15:27 | 10:50p  04:33a |      Rise 04:30a   10%|
|Mon  7| 05:57a  09:26p  15:28 | 10:50p  04:33a |      Rise 04:54a    5%|
|Tue  8| 05:57a  09:26p  15:29 | 10:51p  04:32a |      Rise 05:22a    2%|
|Wed  9| 05:57a  09:27p  15:30 | 10:52p  04:32a |      Rise 05:57a    0%|
|Thu 10| 05:57a  09:27p  15:30 | 10:53p  04:31a |New   Set  10:01p    0%|
|Fri 11| 05:56a  09:28p  15:31 | 10:54p  04:31a |      Set  10:56p    2%|
|Sat 12| 05:56a  09:28p  15:32 | 10:54p  04:31a |      Set  11:45p    6%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 13| 05:56a  09:29p  15:32 | 10:55p  04:30a |      Set  12:26a   12%|
|Mon 14| 05:56a  09:29p  15:33 | 10:55p  04:30a |      Set  01:00a   19%|
|Tue 15| 05:56a  09:30p  15:33 | 10:56p  04:30a |      Set  01:29a   28%|
|Wed 16| 05:56a  09:30p  15:34 | 10:56p  04:30a |      Set  01:55a   37%|
|Thu 17| 05:56a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:57p  04:30a |F Qtr Set  02:18a   48%|
|Fri 18| 05:56a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:57p  04:30a |      Set  02:41a   59%|
|Sat 19| 05:56a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:30a |      Set  03:04a   70%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 20| 05:57a  09:31p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:30a |      Set  03:31a   80%|
|Mon 21| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:30a |      Set  04:02a   89%|
|Tue 22| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |      Set  04:41a   95%|
|Wed 23| 05:57a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |      Set  05:30a   99%|
|Thu 24| 05:58a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:31a |Full  Rise 09:59p  100%|
|Fri 25| 05:58a  09:32p  15:34 | 10:58p  04:32a |      Rise 10:58p   98%|
|Sat 26| 05:58a  09:32p  15:33 | 10:58p  04:32a |      Rise 11:45p   93%|
+------+-----------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
|Sun 27| 05:59a  09:32p  15:33 | 10:58p  04:33a |      Rise 12:22a   86%|
|Mon 28| 05:59a  09:32p  15:32 | 10:58p  04:33a |      Rise 12:50a   78%|
|Tue 29| 06:00a  09:32p  15:32 | 10:57p  04:34a |      Rise 01:14a   69%|
|Wed 30| 06:00a  09:32p  15:31 | 10:57p  04:35a |      Rise 01:35a   59%|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
* Nautical Twilight
** Moonrise or moonset, whichever occurs between sunrise and sunset

Generated using my LookingUp for DOS program.

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05/31/2016 – Ephemeris – Previewing June’s bright skies

May 31, 2016 Comments off

Ephemeris for Tuesday, May 31st.  Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 20 minutes, setting at 9:20, and it will rise tomorrow at 6:00.  The Moon, 2 days past last quarter, will rise at 3:55 tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow will be the first of June, so let’s preview June skies.  There will be a lot of sunlight in June.  The daylight hours will increase a bit from 15 hours and 21 minutes tomorrow to 15 hours and 34 minutes on the 20th, the solstice, retreating back to 15 hours 31 minutes at month’s end.  At this time of the year the sunset times for Ludington, Interlochen, Petoskey and Mackinaw City are very nearly the same.*  However the sunrise times are at their most divergent.  With Ludington’s sunrise being 14 minutes later than Mackinaw City’s.  The altitude of the sun above the southern horizon at local noon will increase from about 67 and a half degrees to 68 and three-quarters on the 20th.  Local noon, when the sun is actually due south will occur at about 1:43 p.m.

Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan. They may be different for your location.

*  See http://ephemeris.bjmoler.org/calendar.htm

Addendum

June Star Chart

June star chart

Star Chart for June 2016. Created using my LookingUp program. To enlarge in Firefox Right-click on image then click View image.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 11 p.m. EDT.  That is chart time.  Note, Traverse City is located approximately 45 minutes behind our time meridian.  (An hour 45 minutes behind our daylight saving time meridian.) To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere you may have to set it to 1:45 earlier than the current time if you are near your time meridian.

Evening nautical twilight ends at 10:45 p.m. EDT on the 1st, increasing to 10:57 p.m. EDT on the 30th.

Morning nautical twilight starts at 4:36 a.m. EDT on the 1st, and decreasing to 4:35 a.m. EDT on the 30th.

Add a half hour to the chart time every week before the 15th and subtract a half hour for every week after the 15th.  Before the 13th also subtract an hour for Standard Time.

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
  • A leaky Big Dipper drips on Leo
  • Follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper to the star Arcturus
  • Extend the arc to a spike to point to Spica.
  • The Summer Triangle is outlined in red.  Vega in Lyra (Lyr), Deneb in Cygnus (Cyg) and Altair in Aquila (Aql).

Calendar of Planetary Events

Credit:  Sky Events Calendar by Fred Espenak and Sumit Dutta (NASA’s GSFC)

To generate your own calendar go to http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html

Times are Eastern Time.  Some additions made to aid clarity.

    Date    Time      Event
Jun 01  We            Venus: 1.5° W
    03  Fr  1:43 a.m. Saturn Opposition
    03  Fr  5:47 a.m. Moon-Mercury: 0.7° N
    03  Fr  6:55 a.m. Moon Perigee: 361100 km
    04  Sa 11:00 p.m. New Moon
    05  Su  4:59 a.m. Mercury Greatest Elongation: 24.2° W
    06  Mo  5:13 a.m. Moon North Dec.: 18.6° N
    06  Mo  5:34 p.m. Venus Superior Conjunction with the Sun.
    10  Fr 10:47 a.m. Moon-Regulus: 2.2° N
    11  Sa  3:35 p.m. Moon-Jupiter: 1.6° N
    11  Sa  6:20 p.m. Moon Ascending Node
    12  Su  4:10 a.m. First Quarter
    13  Mo  6:06 a.m. Mercury-Pleiades: 6.8° S
    15  We  8:00 a.m. Moon Apogee: 405000 km
    18  Sa  8:40 p.m. Moon-Saturn: 3.6° S
    18  Sa 11:39 p.m. Mercury-Aldebaran: 3.8° N
    20  Mo  7:02 p.m. Full Moon
    20  Mo  2:52 p.m. Moon South Dec.: 18.6° S
    20  Mo  6:35 p.m. Summer Solstice
    26  Su  1:28 a.m. Moon Descending Node
    27  Mo  2:19 p.m. Last Quarter
Jul 01                Venus: 6.8° E

 

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06/01/2015 – Ephemeris – Starting orbit 41 looking at June skies

June 1, 2015 Comments off

Ephemeris for Monday, June 1st.  Today the Sun will be up for 15 hours and 20 minutes, setting at 9:21.   The Moon, 1 day before full, will set at 6:17 tomorrow morning and tomorrow the Sun will rise at 6:00.

We’ll start Ephemeris’ 41st orbit of the Sun by looking at the skies of June.  There’ will be a lot of sun in June and very little night.  The daylight hours will increase a bit from 15 hours and 20 minutes today to 15 hours and 34 minutes on the 21st, retreating back to 15 hours 31 minutes at month’s end.  At this time of the year the sunset times for Ludington, Interlochen, Petoskey and Mackinaw City are very nearly the same.  However the sunrise times are at their most divergent.  With Ludington’s sunrise being 14 minutes later than Mackinaw City’s.  The altitude of the sun above the southern horizon at local noon will hover around 68 to 69 degrees.  Local noon, when the sun is actually due south will occur at about 1:43 p.m.  Here’s what we’ve been waiting for:  Summer will start on the 21st at 12:38 p.m.

Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.

Addendum

June Star Chart

Star Chart for June 2015. Created using my LookingUp program.

The Moon is not plotted.

The planets and stars are plotted for the 15th at 11 p.m. EDT.  That is chart time.  Note, Traverse City is located 1 hour 45 minutes behind our time meridian.  To duplicate the star positions on a planisphere set it to 1 hour 45 minutes earlier than the current time.

Evening Astronomical twilight ends at 11:43 p.m. EDT on June 1st, increasing to midnight EDT on the 30th.

Morning astronomical twilight starts at 4:38 a.m. EDT on June 1st, and decreasing to 3:31 a.m. EDT on the 30th.

Add a half hour to the chart time every week before the 15th and subtract and hour for every week after the 15th.

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

The green pointer from the Big Dipper is:

  • Pointer stars at the front of the bowl of the Big Dipper point to Polaris the North Star.
  • Drill a hole in the bowl of the Big Dipper and the water will drip on the back of Leo the Lion.
  • Follow the arc of the Big Dipper’s handle to Arcturus
    • Continue with a spike to Spica
  • The Summer Triangle is shown in red

Calendar of Planetary Events

Credit:  Sky Events Calendar by Fred Espenak and Sumit Dutta (NASA’s GSFC)

To generate your own calendar go to http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html

Times are Eastern Daylight Time on a 24 hour clock.  Some additions made to aid clarity.

Conjunctions like the Moon-Saturn: 2.1° S means Saturn will appear 2.3° south of the Moon.

Jun 01 Mo Venus: 45.3° E
01 Mo 16:02 Moon-Saturn: 2° S
02 Tu 12:19 Full Moon
03 We 17:10 Moon South Dec.: 18.4° S
06 Sa 14:59 Venus Elongation: 45.4° E
09 Tu 11:42 Last Quarter
10 We 00:39 Moon Perigee: 369700 km
10 We 19:29 Moon Descending Node
13 Sa 04:59 Venus-Beehive: 0.6° N
14 Su 10:39 Mars Solar Conjunction
16 Tu 10:05 New Moon
16 Tu 15:47 Moon North Dec.: 18.5° N
20 Sa 07:28 Moon-Venus: 6.3° N
  21 Su 12:38 Summer Solstice
23 Tu 05:39 Mercury-Aldebaran: 1.9° N
23 Tu 13:01 Moon Apogee: 404100 km
24 We 07:03 First Quarter
24 We 12:59 Mercury Elongation: 22.5° W
24 We 13:23 Moon Ascending Node
28 Su 21:27 Moon-Saturn: 2.1° S
30 Tu 22:14 Venus-Jupiter: 0.3° N
Jul 01 We 02:48 Moon South Dec.: 18.4° S
01 We Venus: 42.4° E
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