08/02/2016 – Ephemeris – Two events for the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society this weekend

Ephemeris for Friday, September 2nd.  The Sun will rise at 7:06.  It’ll be up for 13 hours and 9 minutes, setting at 8:16.  The Moon, 1 day past new, will set at 9:00 this evening.

This is another busy weekend for the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society.  Tonight there will be a general meeting of the society at 8 p.m. followed by a star party at 9 p.m. at Northwestern Michigan College’s Rogers Observatory, located on Birmley Road south of Traverse City, to which all are welcome.  The featured speaker for the meeting will be Dr. David Penney who will talk about Late Pleistocene Fauna and Extinction and its possible astronomical cause.  Saturday there will be a star party at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s Dune Climb starting at 9 p.m.  Both star parties will feature the star clusters and nebulae found in the Milky Way, and views of Saturn and Mars.  The dunes are the darkest spot around.

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