Astronomical Alamanac for Aug 29, 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: Thu, 2019 Aug 29 ---> Fri, 2019 Aug 30 Local midnight = 2019 Aug 30, 4 hr UT, or JD 2458725.667 Local Mean Sidereal Time at midnight = 21 49 00.2 Sunset ( 2215 m horizon): 18 34 CST; Sunrise: 6 54 CST Evening twilight: 19 46 CST; LMST at evening twilight: 17 35 Morning twilight: 5 41 CST; LMST at morning twilight: 3 31 12-degr twilight: 19 19 CST --> 6 09 CST; night center: 0 44 CST Moonset : 17 50 CST Moonrise: 7 15 CST Moon at civil midnight: illuminated fraction 0.002 0.3 days before new moon, RA and dec: 10 23 05, 14 16.3 The sun is down for 12.3 hr; 9.9 hr from eve->morn 18 deg twilight. Dark all night (moon down from evening to morning twilight).