News of the Week
🌓 Moon
- Last Quarter: Monday, April 21 at 3:35 CEST
- Close approach to Venus and Saturn: Morning of April 25, low above the NE horizon
🪐 Planets
- Mercury, Neptune: not visible
- Venus (–4.8 mag): low, but very bright
- Saturn (1.2 mag): hard to spot, Moon passes nearby
- Uranus (5.8 mag): disappears in the evening below the Pleiades
- Jupiter (–2 mag): bright in the western sky
- Mars (0.9 mag): high, near the Beehive Cluster (M44)
☀️ Sun
- Moderate activity, auroras visible on April 17 even in Central Europe
☄️ Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)
- Possible breakup, harder to observe
Author: Martin Gembec