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-====== Sky Highlights and NEKAAL Events for APRIL 2016 ====== 
-  * April 7   ​-- ​ __**New Moon**__\\ 
-  * April 9   ​-- ​ **Open House** at Farpoint Observatory,​ 8 pm-? Join us! 
-  * April 13  --  First Quarter\\ 
-  * April 22  --  Full Moon 
-  * April 28  --  General Meeting, Topeka Library, 7 pm. Join us! 
-  * April 29  --  Last Quarter 
  
-===== PLANETS in April 2016 ===== 
-Evening Sky: 
-  * **Mercury** -- in west 
-  * **Jupiter** -- in southeast 
  
-Midnight: +For sky highlights see:
-  * **Mars** ​   -- in southeast +
-  * **Jupiter** -- in southwest +
-  * **Saturn** ​ -- in southeast +
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-Morning Sky: +
-  * **Neptune** -- in east +
-  * **Venus** ​  -- in east +
-  * **Mars** ​   -- in southwest +
-  * **Saturn** ​ -- in south+
  
-===== CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during April 2016 ===== +[[http://​www.skyandtelescope.com/​observing/​sky-at-a-glance/|Sky and Telescope'​s Sky at a glance]] \\ 
-North to South, ​at 9-10 pm: +OR \\ 
-  * **Ursa Minor**, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper +[[http://​www.astronomy.com/​observing/​sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine'​s Sky This Week]] ​
-  * **Camelopardalis**,​ the Giraffe +
-  * **Ursa Major**, the Big Bear, also the Big Dipper +
-  * **Lynx**, not Lynx--so named 1687 because one needs Lynx eyes to see it (true story). +
-  * **Gemini**, the Twins +
-  * **Leo**, the Lion +
-  * **Canis Major**, the bigger dog +
-  * **Hydra**, the Water Monster+
  
-===== SKY EXTRAS in April 2016 ===== 
-  * **Mercury** has its best appearance of the year, in the WSW dusk twilight, best around April 18. 
-  * **Conjunction** of the month: April 25, around 3 am, The moon, Saturn, Mars, and bright red-orange star Antares all gather in the south sky. //Honorable mention//: Jupiter and Moon are very close all night April 18-19. 
-  * **Challenge object** of the month: **Omega Centauri** is theoretically visible from Kansas. It's the Milky Way's largest globular cluster, falling right below bright star Spica and conspicuous constellation Corvus. Big as it is, Omega Centauri never gets more than 3.5 degrees above Topeka'​s south horizon. Best bet: Find it in binoculars right when it's due south, and //then// try for it naked-eye. 
-  * Best **comet**: in binoculars, 252P/​Linear,​ in Serpens Cauda moving into Ophiuchus, at magnitude 5.0. Look high in the morning twilight. 
-  * No great meteor showers this month. (Lyrids are washed out in the Full Moon.) 
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