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Sky Guide April 2017

Sky Guide April 2017

AWESOME ASTRONOMY · Awesome Astronomy

March 29, 201711m 5s

Show Notes

What to look out, and up, for in April.

Our highlights of this month's skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers:

  • A pair of comets to observe with amateur telescopes or binoculars
  • The planets Mercury and Jupiter in the evening
  • The Lyrid meteor shower

Next up, we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:

  • Ralph – Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major
  • Paul – The Black Eye Galaxy in Coma Berenices
  • Jen – The Ring Nebula in Lyra

And we finish this sky guide with April's moon phases.