What’s in the Sky in April

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April

  • 4th Luna lowest altitude 29 deg. 05 min. North.
  • 14th Luna Apogee, furthest distance from Earth for the month 09:49hr AEST 406,294.9km.
  • 19th Moon at highest altitude 28 deg. 03 min. South.28th  Luna Perigee, closest distance from Earth for the month 03:17hr AEST 357,123.2km. The moon will be a Super Moon, which is when the Moon is closer than 360,000km to the Earth.
  • The Emu, which contains the area of the Centre of our Milky Way Galaxy, is now rising in the East just after 9.00pm AEST. The Emu is formed by the dust lanes of the Milky Way with the head of the Emu just below the Southern Cross, the dark area also called the Coal Sack, as it it so dark except for BZ Crucis. BZ Crucis forms the eye of the Emu and is a 5th Magnitude Variable Star 1217 light years from our solar system.

 

 

  • 22nd Earth Day – marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

 

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