PLAY PODCASTS
Sky Guide April 2017

Sky Guide April 2017

AWESOME ASTRONOMY · Awesome Astronomy

March 29, 201711m 5s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (traffic.libsyn.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

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.