I was close with my Ephemeris program on my PPC.
I mentioned 8:22PM, 101 degrees magnetic north or 117 degrees true north.
Illumination at 99% increasing.
This program will also track the moon across the sky, giving me the Altitude
and Azimuth every 15 minutes.
Neat little free program.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peifer, William [OCDUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: RE: Bad Moon Rising
> 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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