The celestial highlights for the week ahead include the rising of the full 'Pink Moon.'
Thursday, April 6: full ‘Pink Moon’ rises
Today our natural orbiting satellite in space reaches its full phase. The first full Moon of spring in the northern hemisphere, it will be best viewed atUse binoculars to pick-out its major craters and ancient seas of lava while it’s appears a muted orange color close to the horizon. Once it’s risen higher into the sky it will become too bright to look at closely.Tonight is a good night to look for Spica using the now 92%-lit waning gibbous Moon, 3° away, as your guide.
You can do that easily by tracing the line of the Big Dipper’s handle in a semi-circle to to go “arc to Arcturus, spike to Spica.”The Virgo Cluster, a cluster of galaxies in the constellation Virgo.Are you ready to have your sense of scale blown apart? Our Milky Way is part of the Local Group, a cluster of small galaxies of which ours is the largest.
This month is perfect for pointing a telescope in the direction of these galaxies, which are found just beneath the constellation Leo. Times and dates given apply to mid-northern latitudes. For the most accurate location-specific information consult online planetariums like
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