Sky Guide April 2017

What to look out, and up, for in April.

Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers:

• A pair of comets to observe with amateur telescopes or binoculars
• The planets Mercury and Jupiter in the evening
• The Lyrid meteor shower

Next up, we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:

• Ralph – Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major
• Paul – The Black Eye Galaxy in Coma Berenices
• Jen – The Ring Nebula in Lyra

And we finish this sky guide with April's moon phases.