April Stardial
Jehana Silverwing

Fri Apr  2 21:57:09 1999
April 1999*p*  Apr 01 - Asteroid 1863 Antinous near-Earth flyby (0.1894 AU)*br*  Apr 01 - Jupiter conjuncts the Sun at 1 am, EST.*br*  Apr 03 - Comet Schorr Perihelion (2.847 AU)*br*  Apr 03 - Moon passes three degrees north of Mars at 3 am, EST.*br*  Apr 04 - Easter Sunday - first Sunday after the first full Moon after the Spring Equinox.  *br*  Apr 04 - Daylight Savings - Set clock ahead 1 hour (North America) - Note:  Europe did this the previous weekend.*br*  Apr 04 - Moon at apogee - 252,000 miles from Earth -- at 5:31 pm EDT.*br*  Apr 06 - Comet Singer Brewster perihelion (2.032 AU)*br*  Apr 06 - Asteroid 6239 Minos near-Earth flyby (0.303 AU)*br*  Apr 08 - Last quarter Moon at 10:51 pm, EDT.*br*  Apr 13 - Moon passes 1 degrees south of Mercury at midnight, EDT.*br*  Apr 16 - New Moon at 12:22 am, EDT.*br*  Apr 16 - Mercury at greatest western elongation (27.5 Degrees), noon EDT.*br*  Apr 17 - Asteroid 1999 FN19 Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU).  Pretty close.*br*  Apr 17 - Moon at perigee -- 223,000 miles away from Earth, 1:26 am, EDT.*br*  Apr 18 - Moon passes 0.7 degrees north of Aldebaran at 10 pm, EDT.*br*  Apr 20 - Venus at perihelion*br*  Apr 21 - Venus passes 7 degrees north of Aldebaran at 4 pm, EDT.*br*  Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower peaks.  While the actual peak will happen about noon, check the skies in the morning hours after moonset (~1:30, depending on location) through dawn.  Look east to the constellations of Lyra and Cygnus.  It will not be a majorly-busy meteor shower.  *br*  Apr 22 - First quarter Moon at 3:01 pm, EDT.*br*  Apr 24 - Mars at opposition, 2 pm EDT.*br*  Apr 26 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 6 closest approach To Earth (2.066 AU)*br*  Apr 27 - Saturn is in conjunction with the Sun at 7 am, EDT.*br*  Apr 27 - Asteroid 1999 FP19 near-Earth flyby (0.242 AU)*br*  Apr 27 - Asteroid 1989 ML near-Earth flyby (0.2520 AU)*br*  Apr 28 - Asteroid 1999 ED5 near-Earth flyby (0.214 AU)*br*  Apr 30 - Full Moon at 10:55 am, EDT.