©ABRAMS PLANETARIUM Use this scale to measure angular distances between Planetarium business office: Evening Planets: Mars objects on diagrams below. (517) 355-4676 is visible in the west SKY CALENDAR APRIL 2021 http://twitter.com/AbramsSkyNotes 0° 10° 20° throughout the month. http://abramsplanetarium.org/ An aid to enjoying the changing sky Mars sets about five and a half hours after sunset SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY at the start of April, and Sunday Alpha Cap Thurs Apr 1, Apr 1-4, Apr 5-8, Sunday Apr 4 Thurs 1 about four and a half Mars Apr 4, 40 minutes before sunrise Last Quarter one hour one hour before sunrise Fri 2 Beta Cap Alpha Cap hours after sunset by two 6:02 a.m. EDT before sunrise Sat 3 Delta Sco CAPRICORNUS the end of the month. hours Sunday 4 after AQUARIUS Saturn Beta Cap Mars fades in brightness Aldebaran Sunday Apr 11 sunset Teapo SCORPIUS from 1.3 to New Moon CAPRICORNUS t Mon 5 10:31 p.m. EDT 1.6 magnitude. Venus and Mercury make an Tues 6 Jupiter Saturn First Quarter Moon SAGITTARIUS Scorpion’s appearance late in the Delta Cap Mon Apr 19 Ju-Sa 12° tail month. Look low in the Thurs 8 Wed 7 11:59 p.m. PDT SE Delta Cap SE WNW with binoculars. Tues Apr 20 ESE SSW S SSE Next month Venus and ESE 2:59 a.m. EDT Mercury will be easier Sunday Apr 11, Alpha Cap Apr 13-15, Fri Apr 16, Sat Apr 17, to spot, but will remain W WNW Mon Apr 12, GEMINI Moon one hour one hour after sunset two two hours close to the WNW 30 min Mars before sunrise hours after sunset horizon. Beta Cap after Aldebaran Gamma Sunday Beta sunset Pleiades Beta after Gem Tauri Morning Planets: Apr 11, Tauri Thurs 15 sunset Mars Mars Jupiter and Saturn one hour TAURUS CAPRICORNUS Moon BetaTauri are low in the south after Saturn Hyades Pleiades east dawn sky. Each sunset morning, the pair of gas TAURUS Jupiter looking TAURUS Wed 14 Aldebaran TAURUS giant planets climb a Delta Cap ARIES West TAURUS little higher. At the start Young Aldebaran ESE SE Hyades of the month, Jupiter Pleiades Moon Hamal Orion’s Aldebaran Tues 13 rises two hours before Pleiades belt Hyades sunrise. At the end Tues 20 Apr 18-20, Apr 21-23, W WNW WNW W WNW Pleiades of the month, Jupiter one hour after sunset one hour after sunset rises three hours before W WNW Beehive S Mon Apr 19, Alpha Cap Aldebaran Sat Apr 24, Fri Apr 23, sunrise. The waning Castor ickle Cluster one hour 25 min one hour crescent Moon is below Beta Cap before sunrise after before sunrise Sat Apr 24, Saturn on April 6 and Saturn sunset Saturn Mon 19 Pleiades 25 minutes below Jupiter April 7. GEMINI LEO Wed 21 TAURUS Pleiades after sunset The Lyrid meteor Jupiter Jupiter CAPRICORNUS shower peaks in the CAPRICORNUS CANIS Sunday 18 Denebola Regulus Delta Cap Use binoculars. predawn hours of April Thurs 22 MINOR Delta Cap Me-Ve 1.3° 22. The Lyrids have a Use binoculars. broad peak, lasting Procyon Ju-Sa 14° Ju-Sa 14.4° Venus Mercury from April 16 to April 25. Fri 23 Venus SE Apr 25-27, SE W WNW The Moon is a waning Wed Apr 28, WNW gibbous in Leo on April 1½ hours one hour before sunrise 22 and will interfere after sunset Sunday 25 Apr 26-May 1, Fri Apr 30, with seeing the fainter Sat 1 Fri 30 one hour before sunrise 35 minutes after sunset VIRGO Spica Saturn Thurs 29 meteors. Beta Lib The on Jupiter T TAURUS Mon 26 eapo Wed 28 April 26 at 11:32 p.m. Mon Apr 26 CAPRICORNUS t Antares LIBRA Aldebaran EDT is the second Full Moon Delta Sco Delta Cap Tues 27 Hyades closest Full Moon of 11:32 p.m. EDT VIRGO 2021. The Moon is at SCORPIUS Alpha Lib Pleiades Beta Lib Ju-Sa 15° Mon 26 perigee, 222,081 miles, Alpha Lib SAGITTARIUS Scorpion’s Me-Ve 4.5° April 27 at 11:22 a.m. LIBRA tail Mercury Venus EDT. The Moon is at ESE Tues 27 SE SE S SSW SW WSW Spica apogee on April 14 at WNW 1:46 p.m. EDT at John S. French, Robert C. Victor $12.00 per , starting anytime, from Sky Calendar, Abrams Planetarium, Michigan State University, 252,343 miles ISSN 0733-6314 This issue may be reprinted for free distribution. Subscription: 755 Science Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824 or online at abramsplanetarium.org/skycalendar/