09/14/2012 – Ephemeris – The Leland Heritage Celebration at Fish Town

Ephemeris for Friday, September 14th.  The sun will rise at 7:20.  It’ll be up for 12 hours and 33 minutes, setting at 7:54.   The moon, 1 day before new, will rise at 6:53 tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow the 15th the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society will participate in  the Leland Heritage Celebration to safely view the sun, which is now very active. The event will take place in and around historic Fish Town at the harbor.  If its clear we will have out Lunt solar telescope to view the sun’s chromosphere, the layer of hydrogen above the bright ball of the sun we see with normal solar filters.  In the chromosphere are seen solar flares when they occur, huge jets of hydrogen gas called prominences when seen sticking out the side of the sun and filaments when seen against the sun.   Society members will be on hand to answer questions about the heavens and telescopes. Times for this event are 10 a.m to 3 p.m.

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

Addendum

GTAS telescopes at Leland Heritage Celebration in 2011.

That was before the GTAS acquired the Lunt Hydrogen α (alpha ) Solar Telescope.