Sun

 

The sun’s daylight hours increase 70 minutes during February; that means that daylight is growing at over 2 minutes each day.  For residents of the mid-northern latitudes, this is a welcome from the length of daylight hours six weeks ago.  The chart above shows the length of daylight during February (blue area) compared to the length of daylight hours during the entire year (red line).

Moon

Phase	Date/Time	Moonrise	Moonset
Full Moon	02/03/15 (5:09 p.m.)	4:18 p.m.	6:29 a.m. (02/03)
Last Quarter	02/11/15 (9:50 p.m.)	12:54 a.m. (02/12)	11:15 a.m. (02/12)
New Moon	02/18/15 (5:47 p.m.)	6:12 a.m.	5:28 p.m.
First Quarter	02/25/15 (12:14 p.m.)	11:48 a.m.	1:29 a.m. (02/26)
Times are Central Standard Time for Chicago, Illinois, from US Naval Observatory calculations. (For mjb)