Gamma Leonis – Colourful double star
April 2 – Full Moon
Spica and Moon less than 4-degrees apart
April 3 – Morning Targets
- Mercury Greatest Elongation 28-degrees from Sun in morning sky – Spring elongations are a disappointment for Mercury
- Long Period Variable star max for R Serpentis
April 5th – Spot Sirius unaided eye before sunset this week.
- 88 Leonis colourful double star
April 6th and later NGC 2903, large 9th mag. Spiral in Leo
M48 – 6th mag. OC well placed at the meridian
Also on 6th Moon and Antares at dawn less than 4 -degrees apart
April 8th – NGC 3521 – well placed 9th magnitude spiral galaxy in S. Leo
April 9th – Carbon Star TU Geminorum Best.
April 10th and later – Last Quarter Moon and Lunar X visible and 10th magnitude comet hanging out in Ursa Major
Mid- April – Moon, Mercury, Neptune, Mars, Saturn all congregate in morning sky – they are LOW
April 17 th – New AND ***** Very Young Moon visible 14.5hrs for us here, 6th magnitude so a real challenge but west of us esp. West coast it’ll be 17hrs…that’s very doable.
April 18th – Venus and Moon under 5-degrees apart
April 22 – Lyrid Meteors – ZHR – 18 – best in pre-dawn skies
April 23rd – Last quarter Moon & Hipparchus Ray visible on Moon
April 24th Mons Pico & Beta visible
24 Long period variable carbon star max. SS Vir 11:00 pm
April 25 Moon occults Regulus this evening
6:45pm for extreme S Canada like point pelee and USA
April 25 Eastern Maria 9:00 pm
April 25 Eyes of Clavius 9:00 pm
April 26th Lunar Straight wall
COMETS!!!!
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