Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Thursday, October 3rd.  The sun will rise at 7:43.  It’ll be up for 11 hours and 35 minutes, setting at 7:18.   The moon, 1 day before new, will rise at 7:19 tomorrow morning.

The Midwest Space Fest starts tomorrow evening.  This is a bit late, but there could be seats available for some events.  Check out magnorth.org for more information.  Paid events are at the State Theater and ECCO Event Space, 121 Front St. Friday Night and Dr Filippenko Saturday morning.  Free events are also Saturday including NASA and other astronomical exhibits at the ECCO Event Space plus sun viewing during the day and later on a star party at the Open Space on the bay.  Full disclosure, the Space Fest is the brainchild of Carolyn McKellar a family friend.  I knew her when she was yea high.  She’s an amateur astronomer, who at one time wanted to be an astrophysicist.  However her interest turned to coordinating events like this.

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

Addendum

Michigan Science Center is bringing their inflatable STARLAB planetarium which will be set up in room 101 in NMC’s Health and Science Building Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Free tickets can be reserved here.

Ephemeris for Thursday, August 29th.  The sun will rise at 7:01.  It’ll be up for 13 hours and 22 minutes, setting at 8:23.   The moon, 1 day past last quarter, will rise at 1:33 tomorrow morning.

The first weekend of October Traverse City will play host to the Midwest Space Fest, a celebration of astronomy and space.  Venues include the State Theater, The ECCO Event Space and the Open Space.  The keynote speaker is the world-renowned astronomer Alex Fillipenko, seen on many science TV programs like the Universe.   He’ll talk about a hot topic: Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe.  Events kick off Friday evening at the State Theater for a film and star talks explaining the starry ceiling of the theater.  This will be followed by a launch party or a star party at the Rogers Observatory.  Saturday is Dr. Fillipenko’s talk and observing the sun and stars at the open space.  There’s more information at www.magnorth.org.

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

Addendum

Midwest Space Fest card