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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

 

Thursday April 27 to Thursday May 4

The First Quarter Moon is Friday, April 28. Saturn is climbing in the morning twilight. Venus is prominent in the evening twilight and starts the week making a triangle with Elnath and Zeta Taurii, the stars that make the horns of the Bull. Venus forms a line with them by the 1st. Bright Mars forms a triangle with the bright stars Castor and Pollux. Venus, Mars and the waxing Moon form a line on the 27th. ETA Aquariids meteor shower starts.

The First Quarter Moon is Friday, April 28. The Moon is also at apogee, when it is farthest from the Earth, on the 28th.

Morning sky on Saturday, April 29 as seen from Adelaide at 05:24 ACST, (90 minutes before sunrise, click to embiggen). Saturn is below Capricorn.





   

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes before sunrise).  

 

Evening sky on Monday, May 1 as seen from Adelaide at 18:36 ACST, (60 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen). Venus forms a line with the stars Elnath and zeta Taurii. 




   

Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (60 minutes after sunset).

Evening sky on Thursday, April 27as seen from Adelaide at 19:03 ACST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Venus, Mars, and the waxing Moon form a line. Mars forms a triangle with the bright stars Castor and Pollux.






Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset).   


Morning sky on Wednesday, May 6 looking east as seen from Adelaide at 5:00 am local time in South Australia showing the eta Aquariid meteor shower radiant as a star burst. Similar views will be seen elsewhere at the equivalent local time (click to embiggen).


The eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on the late evening/early morning of  5-7 May in Australia, however the rising Moon reduces the rates on these dates, and the 4th is a reasonable night for viewing with about a meteor every six minutes.


Whole sky on Saturday, April 29 as seen from Adelaide at 19:08 ACST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Mars is visible above the north western horizon and Venus is just setting in the west.


Orion the Hunter, is prominent along with Sirius low in the north-western sky.

Between the bright star Canopus and the Southern Cross are another wealth of binocular objects to discover.

   

 Elsewhere in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset).

 

Mercury returns to the morning twilight, but will be almost impossible to see. 

Venus climbs higher in the twilight and forms a line with the stars Elnath and zeta Taurii.

Mars  forms a triangle with the bright stars Castor and Pollux.

Jupiter is now lost in the twilight.

Saturn climbs higher in the morning skies. 

Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEST, Western sky at 10 pm AEST. For further details and more information on what's up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.


 

Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.

Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.

Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/

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