Astronomical phenomena April 2016.

2016 is full of surprises for observers worldwide. A lot of events will take place this year from occultations to eclipses.

Take your binoculars or telescope from the closet, because surely, in 2016 you will not have too many pauses between the events that will unfold in the sky.

Astronomical Calendar April 2015 astronomical events.

April.
►02 April 2016 - Comet 100P / Hartley reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 6.35-year orbit. Its return was observed 5 times.

►05 April 2016 - Mercury perihelion. The planet will be at its closest point to the Sun at 19:00.

►06 April 2016 - Comet D / Schorr (1918 W1) reaches perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 8.51-year orbit. Its return has been seen 1 times.

►06 April 2016 - occultation. Venus 0.7 ° S from the Moon 10:30.

►07 April 2016 - Comet 190p / Mueller at perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 8.74-year orbit. Its return was observed 2 times.

►07 April 2016 - New Moon. The moon will be directly between the Earth and Sun and will not be visible from Earth. This phase occurs at 13:24.

►07 April 2016 - The moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth (357164 km from Earth) at 19:36.

►10 April 2016 - Comet 321P / SOHO at perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 3.77-year orbit. Its return was observed 3 times.

►11 April 2016 - Aldebaran 0.4 ° S from the Moon at 0:05.

►14 April 2016 - The moon at first quarter. at 5:59.

►18 April 2016 - Mercury at greatest elongation at: 19.9 ° E, at 16:00.

►20 April 2016 - Comet PANSTARRS (2013 X1) at perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has an unknown orbit. Its return has not been observed.

►21 April 2016 - Moon at apogee. The moon reaches the furthest point from the Earth (406352 km from Earth) at 18:05.

►22 April 2016 - Full Moon. Earth will be between the Sun and Moon, and therefore, the Moon will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 7:24.

►April 22-23, 2016 - Lyrid meteor shower. Lyrids are meteor showers with medium intensity, usually producing about 20 meteors per hour. These meteors can produce bright dust tail that takes a few seconds. Some meteors may be visible between April 16 to 25. These meteors radiate from the constellation Lyra, and their source Comet Thatcher 18611.

►29 April 2016 - Comet 53P / Van Biesbroeck at perihelion, the closest position of the sun. It has a 8.85-year orbit. Its return was observed 2 times.

►30 April 2016 - The moon at last quarter . at 5:29.


Legend:
-Perihelion-position in the orbit of a planet closest to the Sun.
-Aphelion - position in the orbit of a planet farthest from the Sun.
-Perigee -  the position of the Moon closest to Earth.
-Apogee -  the position of the Moon farthest to Earth.
-Inferior Conjunction - Mercury or Venus passing between the Earth and Sun.
-Superior Conjunction - Mercury or Venus passes on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth.
-Greatest elongation - elongation is the angle between the Sun and a planet as seen from Earth, during eastern elongation (E), the planet appears as an evening star, during western elongation (W), the planet appears as a morning star.
-Opposition - position in the orbit of a planet when opposites the Sun as seen from Earth.
-Conjunction - position in the orbit of a planet when appears closer to the Sun as seen from Earth.
-Occultation - Moon occults or eclipses a star or a planet.
-Ascending Node - the point where a planet passes from the southern to the northern part of its orbit.
-Descending Node - the point where a planet passes from the northern to the southern side of its

Astronomical phenomena March 2016.

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