Songs of Spring

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April/May 1998
By Fred Schaaf 
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ALMANAC FOR, APRIL-MAY 1998

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1 All Fools' Day.
2 Mars near Saturn at dusk, but too near Sun to see clearly; Pascua Florida Day; this day in 1959, NASA chose the original seven Mercury astronauts.
3 FIRST QUARTER MOON, 3:18 P.M. EST; in 1966, Luna 10 became first spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
4 In 1902, a skinny — just 40-foot-wide — waterspout hit the S.S. Hestia but no one was injured; in 1966, two tornadoes crossed central Florida all the way from coast to coast — Tampa Bay to Cape Canaveral — covering the 140 miles at 60 mph.
5 Palm Sunday; set clocks ahead 1 hour ("spring forward") to change from standard to daylight saving time.
10 Good Friday.
11 First day of Passover; FULL MOON (Grass Moon or Egg Moon), 6:23 P.M. EDT.
12 Easter; Astronomy Day (25th anniversary of its inception); first man in space (Yuri Gagarin, 1961).
13 Saturn at conjunction with the Sun and therefore unviewable; Thomas Jefferson's Birthday (celebrated in Alabama and Oklahoma); launch of the ill-fated Apollo 13 in 1970.
14 Apollo 13 explosion; Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth in 1866.
15 Titanic sunk by an iceberg, 1912.
17 Venus very near a star in Aquarius before dawn (use binoculars to see the star next to Venus, brightest point of light by far in the sky); Venus and second-brightest planet, Jupiter, noticeably closer together in sky each day until April 22 and 23.
18 Sun enters constellation Aries, 9 P.M. EDT.
19 Jupiter very near a star in Aquarius before dawn (use binoculars to detect the star); LAST QUARTER MOON, 3:53 P.M. EDT; Orthodox Easter.
20 Sun enters the astrological sign Taurus, 3 A.M. EDT; Patriots Day (in Maine and Massachusetts); Earth Day.
21 This evening and tomorrow evening, look for Lod meteors from northeast before middle of the night moonrise.
22 Set your alarm clocks to get up and see tomorrow's great conjunction before dawn.
23 Spectacular Moon-Venus-Jupiter conjunction (see text)!
24 National Arbor Day; Nabonassar Era year 2747 begins.
25 The Hubble Space Telescope was first deployed in orbit (by Space Shuttle astronauts) this day in 1990; in 1983, a strong mountain wave allowed Thomas Knauff to pilot his glider non-stop from Williamsport, PA to North Carolina and back — a world record distance of 1,023 miles.
26 NEW MOON, 7:41 A.M. EDT.
28 Muslim New Year — actually starts at sunset of previous day (first day: 1 Muharram of the year 1419 A.H.).
30 May Eve.

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