Astronomical Alamanac for Sep 12, 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 Sep 12 ---> Fri, 2019 Sep 13 Local midnight = 2019 Sep 13, 4 hr UT, or JD 2458739.667 Local Mean Sidereal Time at midnight = 22 44 12.0 Sunset ( 2215 m horizon): 18 41 CST; Sunrise: 6 37 CST Evening twilight: 19 54 CST; LMST at evening twilight: 18 37 Morning twilight: 5 25 CST; LMST at morning twilight: 4 10 12-degr twilight: 19 26 CST --> 5 53 CST; night center: 0 39 CST Moonrise: 17 15 CST Moonset : 6 48 CST Moon at civil midnight: illuminated fraction 0.990 1.0 days until full moon, RA and dec: 22 48 31, -11 40.7 The sun is down for 11.9 hr; 9.5 hr from eve->morn 18 deg twilight. Bright all night (moon up from evening to morning twilight).