Bob Blakely wrote:
[Ephemeris information for full moon from Los Angeles area....]
Hi Shel & Bob (and anyone else still looking for this information),
I checked a couple of sky charting programs I have on my computer. For
Oakland, CA (pretty close to El Cerrito), moonrise will be about 8:21:53 PM
local time on the evening of June 5, 2001. The moon will rise at an
apparent local azimuth angle of 117 degrees, 15 minutes (or about 117 and
one quarter degrees). This is 27.25 degrees south of due East, and these
angles are with respect to *true* north -- not magnetic north. To get a
very good estimate of true north, you can either look up your magnetic
declination on a USGS topo map, or you can just look for Polaris in the
night sky and see where it sits with respect to a magnetic north compass
heading.
Hope this helps, and I hope your local weather tomorrow night will be better
than mine here.
Bill Peifer
Rochester, NY
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