Awesome Astronomy - April Sky Guide

Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce. Summary of content: What to look out, and up, for in April. Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: A pair of comets to observe with amateur telescopes or binoculars. The planets Mercury and Jupiter in the evening. The Lyrid meteor shower, ZHR 18/hr. Peak Apr 22, active 16-25th. Newish Moon. C1861 G1 Thatcher is the parent body. Next up, we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favorites for this time of year: Ralph – Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major Paul – The Black Eye Galaxy in Coma Berenices Jen – The Ring Nebula in Lyra And we finish this sky guide with March’s moon phases. http://www.awesomeastronomy.com Enter the code for this week into this site: https://cosmoquest.org/achievements/code for a chance to win. This week's code is bJHz9j Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. While you're at it, do support our Learning Space educator training program by going to this site: https://www.patreon.com/LearningSpace Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more!