- Earth & Sky Calendar

Mon Apr 21 - Earth Day...Mercury Great Elongation 27* West

Wed Apr 23 - Festival of Jupiter and Venus

Thur Apr 24 - Moon at South Node...Moon conjunct Venus...St Mark's Eve - a night for divination

Fri Apr 25 - Robigalia/St Mark's Day - protection against mildew on crops. Migratory birds returning from winter homes....Moon on the equator...Moon conjunct Mercury....Moon conjunct Saturn

Sun Apr 27 - New Moon in tropical Taurus...Moon at perigee

Venus has become a morning star! in the east horizon pre-dawn. From the 19 - 30 you can spot dim Saturn and Mercury below Venus (very low on horizon).

Jupiter is overhead at mid heaven at night fall near Aldebaran the eye of the bull in Taurus 

Mars is also overhead at dark east of

of Jupiter and a bit dimmer and redder! now drifting away from Castor and Pollux, the twin stars of Gemini.