Astronomical Alamanac for Aug 16, 2019


*** Almanac for the currently specified date ***: Almanac for Cerro Tololo: long. 4 43 16 (h.m.s) W, lat. -30 09.9 (d.m), elev. 2215 m Chilean Daylight Savings Time used before 2 AM 2019 Mar 10 and after 2 AM 2019 Oct 13; standard zone = 4 hrs W For the night of: Fri, 2019 Aug 16 ---> Sat, 2019 Aug 17 Local midnight = 2019 Aug 17, 4 hr UT, or JD 2458712.667 Local Mean Sidereal Time at midnight = 20 57 45.0 Sunset ( 2215 m horizon): 18 26 CST; Sunrise: 7 08 CST Evening twilight: 19 40 CST; LMST at evening twilight: 16 37 Morning twilight: 5 55 CST; LMST at morning twilight: 2 53 12-degr twilight: 19 12 CST --> 6 23 CST; night center: 0 47 CST Moonrise: 19 20 CST Moon at civil midnight: illuminated fraction 0.973 1.6 days after full moon, RA and dec: 23 01 37, -10 39.9 The sun is down for 12.7 hr; 10.2 hr from eve->morn 18 deg twilight. Bright all night (moon up from evening to morning twilight).