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Volume 22 -- Issue 4
Sky Watch Calendar -- April 2016
01.
Mercury at Ascending Node
04.
Cassini Flyby of Titan
05.
Moon at Descending Node
07. New Moon
Moon at Perigee - 357,163 km
08.
Waxing Crescent Moon Near Mercury
09.
Uranus at Solar Conjunction
10.
Waxing Crescent Moon Near Aldebaran
14.
First Quarter Moon
15. Mercury at Greatest Northern
   Heliocentric Latitude
16.
Waxing Gibbous Moon Near Regulus
17.
Mars Begins Retrograde Motion
Waxing Gibbous Moon Near Jupiter
18.
Sun Enters the Astronomical
   Sign of Aries
Moon at Ascending Node
Mercury at Greatest East Elongation
Pluto Begins Retrograde Motion
19.
Sun Does Not Enter the Astrological
   Sign of Taurus
20.
Waxing Gibbous Moon Near Spica
21.
Moon at Apogee - 406,351km
22.
Full Moon
Earth Day
Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
25.
Waning Gibbous Moon Near Mars and Saturn
27.
Asteroid Juno at Opposition
30.
Last Quarter Moon
2016 Moon Phases from NASA GSFC and LRO

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