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Ephemeris: 03/01/2024 – Mr. Eclipse to give a presentation about April’s Total Solar Eclipse

March 1, 2024 Comments off

This is Ephemeris for Friday, March 1st. Today the Sun will be up for 11 hours and 11 minutes, setting at 6:31, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:17. The Moon, 2 days before last quarter, will rise at 1:09 tomorrow morning.

Tonight’s meeting of the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will start at a special time, 7 pm, at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory, because we will join the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society via Zoom for a talk by Fred Espenak formerly of NASA. He is known as Mr. Eclipse and of course he will be talking about the April 8th total solar eclipse. Fred Espenak has been responsible for NASA’s eclipse website through the 2017 total solar eclipse. He’s chased the shadow of the Moon around the world. Now retired, he hosts two websites. One of which is mreclipse.com. The observatory is located south of Traverse City on Birmley Road between Garfield and Keystone roads.

You may also join the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society meeting directly: Follow this link to register for Zoom. They have room for 500 people on Zoom, and they’d like to max that out!

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 diamond ring effect
The diamond ring effect at the end of totality with just a bit of the sun’s photosphere peeking around the edge of the moon. This photograph was taken by me during the July 10th 1972 total solar eclipse seen from Prince Edward Island.
The path of the April 8th 2024 total solar eclipse across the US.
The path of the April 8th 2024 total solar eclipse which will pass from southwest to northeast across the United States from Texas to Maine. Click or tap on the image to enlarge it. This image is part of an interactive eclipse map at https://eclipse2024.org/eclipse_cities/statemap.html. Credit: Eclipse2024.org.
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