Monthly Calendar
April 2018

  • 1. Mercury at inferior conjunction
  • 2. Mars near Saturn
  • 3. Waning gibbous Moon near Jupiter
  • 7. Waning gibbous Moon near Saturn and Mars
  • 8. Moon at Apogee: 404,100 km (251,096 mi.)
  •      Last quarter Moon
  • 10. Moon at descending node
  • 12. Yuri’s Night
  • 16. New Moon
  • 17. Saturn at aphelion
  •      Waxing crescent Moon near Venus
  • 18. Uranus in solar conjunction
  •      Waxing crescent Moon near Aldebaran
  •      Saturn begins retrograde motion
  • 20. Moon at perigee: 368,700 km (229,099 mi.)
  • 22. Earth Day
  •      Lyrid Shower Peak: ZHR = 20
  •      First quarter Moon
  • 23. Waxing gibbous Moon near Beehive Open Star Cluster
  •      Moon at ascending node
  • 24. Waxing gibbous Moon near Regulus
  • 29. Mercury at western elongation: 27°W
  •      Full Moon
  • 30. Waning gibbous Moon near Jupiter

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