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Volume 23 -- Issue 4
Sky Watch Calendar -- April 2017
01.
Mercury at Eastern Elongation
02.
Waxing Crescent Moon
   Near M-35 Star Cluster
03.
First Quarter Moon
05.
Waxing Gibbous Moon
Near Beehive Star Cluster
06.
Saturn Begins Retrograde Motion
Mars Near Dwarf Planet Ceres
Cassini Spacecraft Flyby of Titan
07.
Moon at Ascending Node
Jupiter at Opposition
Moon Near Regulus
10.
Mercury Begins Retrograde Motion
11.
Full Moon
Moon Near Spica and Jupiter
12.
Yuri's Night
14.
Uranus at Solar Conjunction
15.
Moon at Apogee - 405, 475 km
16.
Moon Near Saturn
18.
Sun Does Enter the Astronomical
   Sign of Aries
19.
Last Quarter Moon
The Sun Does Not
   Enter the Astrological Sign of Taurus
20.
Mercury at Inferior Conjunction
21.
Moon at Descending Node
Mars Near the Pleiades
22.
Earth Day
March for Science
Cassini Spacecraft Flyby of Titan
23.
Moon Near Venus
24-28.
Astronomy Week
26. New Moon
Venus at Greatest Illumination
27.
Moon at Perigee - 359,327 km
Moon Passes Across Taurus
28.
Moon Near Aldebaran
29.
Astronomy Day