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Highlighting the Near and Deep Sky
What’s Up E W Highlighting the Near and Deep Sky April , 2019 S
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General Information Among April’s celestial happenings:
Our yearly musical meteors arrive, but let’s not harp on it! Natural and artificial time measurements come into agreement, but just for a moment! Does your month seem to be draggin’ ? Then it can’t be a dragon month! Sunset Range: 7:42 p.m. (April 1st) to 8:08 p.m. (April 30th). End of Astronomical Twilight: 9:11 p.m. (April 1st) to 9:46 p.m. (April 30th).
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Moon Phases Fri., 5th – New Moon (rises 7:30 a.m., sets 8:10 p.m.)
April 2019 Fri., 5th – New Moon (rises 7:30 a.m., sets 8:10 p.m.) Friday/Saturday observing opportunities April 5th/6th Fri., 12th – First Quarter (rises 12:19 p.m., sets 3:10 a.m. on 13th) Fri., 19th – Full Moon (rises 8:23 p.m., sets 7:05 a.m. on 20th) Fri., 26th – Last Quarter (rises 2:15 a.m., sets 12:19 p.m.) Friday/Saturday observing opportunities April 26th/27th
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Celestial Events April 2019
Mon., 8th – The waxing crescent Moon, Aldebaran, Mars and the Pleiades form a 7° x 13° diamond in Taurus in the evening sky. Fri., 12th – Moon at ascending node; longitude 112.0°. Mon., 15th – Equation of Time is 0. Clocks and sun dials agree on time. (The first of four annual agreements for 2019; others: 6/13, 9/1, 12/25.) Tues., 16th – Moon at perigee; Earth-radii from Earth. Mon., 22nd – Annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks in the evening; best may be in the pre-dawn hours that day. ZHR 18. Waning gibbous moon interferes. Thurs., 25th – Moon at descending node; longitude 290.7°. Sun., 28th – Moon at apogee; Earth-radii from Earth. (11.1% farther than on the 16th.) April 8, 2019, 9:00 p.m.
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(~30 min. before full darkness) (~30 min. before full darkness)
April 15th, 9:00 p.m. (~30 min. before full darkness) April 15th, 9:00 p.m. (~30 min. before full darkness) For tonight, Mar. 19th, 8:30 p.m. is about 30 min. before full darkness. For tonight, Mar. 18th, 8:30 p.m. is about 30 min. before full darkness. Mars E W Moon S
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Stargazers Online!
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