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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
(These are videos on YouTube)
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