Volume 17 -- Issue 4 Sky Watch Calendar -- April 2011 01. Waning Crescent Moon Near Venus 02. Moon at Apogee - 406 656 km 03. New Moon Saturn at Opposition 06. Jupiter at solar Conjunction Waxing Crescent Moon Near the Pleiades 07. Waxing Crescent Moon Near the Hyades 08. Winter solstice on Mars Pluto Begins Retrograde Motion 09. Waxing Crescent Moon Near M-35 Mercury at Inferior Conjunction 11. First Quarter Moon First Quarter Moon Near Gemini Twins 12. Yuri's Night 13. Waxing Gibbous Moon Near Regulus 16. Waxing Gibbous Moon Near Saturn 17. Moon at Perigee - 358 090 km 18. Full Moon 19. Waning Gibbous Moon Near Spica Sun Enters Aries Cassini Flyby of Titan 20. Sun Enters astrological Sign of Taurus 21. Waning Gibbous Moon Near Antares 22. Venus 2 Degrees From Uranus Mercury Ends Retrograde Motion 25. Last Quarter Moon A Four Planet arrangement 30. Waning Crescent Moon Near Venus