Local Sky Events

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• Mars is in the west in the early evening sky moving through the constellation Taurus. As Earth speeds away from Mars it dims this month from 1.5 to 1.6.
• Venus spends the month close to the east-southeastern horizon rising during twilight. Venus rises before Mercury at -3.9 magnitude.
• Mercury hugs the east-southeast horizon during twilight never reaching above 5 degrees. Use binoculars to find this 0.9 magnitude planet.
• Jupiter rises about 1 AM at the beginning of April and by 11 PM at the end of April. It brightens from -2.3 to -2.5.
• Saturn brightens from magnitude 0.6 to 0.5 in Sagittarius. Saturn's rings are tilted to our line of sight. Saturn rises about 3 AM.
• Moon: New Apr 5; First Qt Apr 12; Full Apr 19, last quarter Apr 26th.
• See our Links page - Sky Watching - for other events.
• See Sky and Telescope Magazine (This Week's Sky at a Glance) from our Links page for more events.