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Volume 21 -- Issue 4
Sky Watch Calendar -- April 2015
01.
Moon at
Apogee
- 406,012 km
04.
Full Moon
Total
Lunar Eclipse
Moon Near
Spica
Moon At
Ascending
Node
05.
Pluto at
West
Quadrature
06.
Uranus in
Solar
Conjunction
08.
Jupiter Ends Retrograde Motion
Waning Gibbous Moon
Near
Saturn
10.
Mercury at
Superior
Conjunction
Venus Near the
Pleiades
12.
Last Quarter Moon
Yuri's Night
16.
Pluto Begins Retrograde Motion
17.
Moon at
Perigee
- 361,023 km
Moon At
Descending
Node
18.
New Moon
19.
Sun Enters the Astronomical
Sign of
Aries
Thin Waxing Crescent Moon
Near
Mars
20.
Sun
Does Not
Enter the Astrological
Sign of
Taurus
Waxing Crescent Moon
Near the
Pleiades
20
th
-26
th
.
Astronomy Week
21.
Waxing Crescent Moon
Near
Aldebaran
and Venus
22.
Mars Near
Mercury
Earth Day
25.
First Quarter Moon
Spring
Astronomy Day
27.
Waxing Gibbous Moon
Near
Jupiter
28.
Waxing Gibbous Moon
Near
Regulus
29.
Moon at
Apogee
- 405,083 km
.
2015 Moon Phases from
NASA GSFC
and
LRO
(These are videos on YouTube)
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