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Our “thermometer” is a Droll Yankees 36” Finch Flocker. It can be ordered from our Audubon shop. Photo courtesy of Droll Yankees.

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Sunrise and Sunset data

To help teams in their planning – when to begin birding in a particular location, when to finish etc.

(from the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Dept.) )

for Lincoln, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
(longitude W71.3, latitude N42.4):

Friday, 15 May 2009, Eastern Daylight Time

SUN
Begin civil twilight   4:51 a.m.                
Sunrise                   5:23 a.m.                
Sun transit             12:42 p.m.                
Sunset                    8:00 p.m.                
End civil twilight      8:33 p.m.  

MOON
Moonset           9:31 a.m. on preceding day
Moonrise         12:46 a.m.                
Moon transit       5:36 a.m.                
Moonset           10:34 a.m.
Moonset              1:12 a.m. on following day

Phase of the Moon on 15 May: waning gibbous with 66% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated..
Last quarter Moon on 17 May 2009 at 3:26 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Saturday  16 May 2009   Eastern Daylight Time          

SUN
Begin civil twilight       4:50 a.m.                
Sunrise                       5:22 a.m.                
Sun transit                 12:42 p.m.                
Sunset                         8:01 p.m.                
End civil twilight           8:34 p.m. 

MOON
Moonset            10:34 a.m. on preceding day
Moonrise             1:12 a.m.                
Moon transit         6:20 a.m.                
Moonset             11:37 a.m.
Moonrise              1:36 a.m. on following day 

Phase of the Moon on 16 May:  waning gibbous with 56% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.
Last quarter Moon on 17 May 2009 at 3:26 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

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