Here are some of the things to see in the April sky:
- 10:30 pm, northeast sky – Ursa Major with the recognizable Big Dipper asterism, the visual double Mizar and Alcor, the former composed of four and the latter of two stars, the Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), a bright spiral galaxy near the Dipper’s handle, and the pair of galaxies catalogued as Messier 81 and Messier 82 and known as Bode’s Galaxy and the Cigar Galaxy, located 10 degrees to the northwest of Dubhe, the northern Pointer star
- 10:30 pm, southern sky – Leo constellation with the bright star Regulus marking the lion’s heart, an asterism known as the Sickle forming its head, and Denebola marking the tail, and the bright spiral galaxies Messier 95, Messier 96, the elliptical galaxy Messier 105, and the Leo Triplet, consisting of the large spiral galaxies Messier 65, Messier 66 and NGC 3628, located between Regulus and Denebola
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