Songs of Spring

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April/May 1998
By Fred Schaaf 
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1 May Day; Beltane.
3 FIRST QUARTER MOON, 6:04 A.M. EDT.
4 Mercury at greatest morning elongation but low, poor for Northern Hemisphere observers; in 1761, a tornado became a waterspout and sank five British warships in the river at Charleston, SC.
5 Cinco de Mayo; first American in space (Alan Shepard, 1961).
6 After moonset and before dawn, a number of Eta Aquarid meteors may be seen at country locations (these "shooting stars" are debris from Halley's Comet); halfway point of spring.
7 Lusitania sunk by German torpedoes, 1915.
8 V-E Day in 1945; Truman Day (celebrated in Missouri).
10 Mother's Day; Jupiter passes very near a star (use binoculars to see the star near Jupiter, which is now well to the upper right of brighter Venus before dawn).
11 FULL MOON (Milk Moon or Planting Moon), 10:29 A.M. EDT.
12 Mars at conjunction with the Sun, and therefore unviewable; Mercury near Saturn but both too low in dawn sky to glimpse easily.
14 Sun enters constellation Taurus, midnight; Skylab launched into space in 1973.
16 Armed Forces Day.
17 Rogation Sunday.
18 Victoria Day (in Canada).
19 LAST QUARTER MOON, 12:35 A.M. EDT.
21 Ascension Day; Sun enters astrological sign Gemini, 2 A.M. EDT.
25 Memorial Day (observed); NEW MOON, 3:32 P.M. EDT.
28 This morning and especially tomorrow morning, Venus very close to Saturn in the east before dawn; Pluto at opposition, closest, and brightest for year (but still too dim to be seen in less than a medium-size telescope).
29 Oak Apple Day in England.
30 Memorial Day (traditional date).
 31 Whitsunday (Whitsun Day or Whitsun) — is the-seventh Sunday (50th day inclusive) after Easter; Pentecost; Shavuot.

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