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