Welcome to Summer, and the SpaceWatch News

Hello everyone. Welcome to the SpaceWatch news service of the Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association.

Using this blog, we will be keeping you, the public, informed of various happenings in astronomy, and things to interest in the local astronomical community that will be of interest to the people of West Michigan.

There isn’t really a schedule of when things will be posted, so please visit often.

Today is the Summer Solstice, which means the first “official” day of summer for people living in the Northern Hemisphere. The sun - at its northernmost point in the sky today - will be 70.5 ° above the horizon from Grand Rapids. The “official time” of the solstice is 2.06pm EDT.