What’s Up
There’s so much to stay up for on this week’s night time skies. Venus shines tremendous brilliant within the early night western sky, joined by the crescent Moon on April 18. Round that very same time, Saturn, Mars, Mercury, and Neptune are all close to one another within the pre-dawn east, very low to the horizon simply earlier than dawn. In a single day between April 21 and 22, the medium-strength Lyrid meteor bathe peaks. On April 22, the Moon can be close to very brilliant Jupiter, which shines excessive within the west within the early night all week. And on April 23, within the early night west, tremendous dim, bluish Uranus can be close to tremendous brilliant Venus in addition to the faint stars of the Pleiades star cluster, an incredible sight if in case you have binoculars or a telescope. Be taught extra about all of those thrilling night time sky issues in our April stargazing information.
