Stargazing News - April 6th, 2025
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
The Winter Triangle (evening)
The lower part of the southwestern sky on early April evenings is dominated by the three bright stars of the Winter Triangle. The prominent asterism, which
is visible even while the bright, waxing gibbous moon is shining nearby this weekend, is anchored on the bottom by the magnitude -1.45 star Sirius or Alpha Canis Majoris, the brightest star in the entire night sky. Above Sirius (to
the celestial NNE) shines the white, magnitude 0.34 star Procyon or Alpha
Canis Minoris. The third, northwestern vertex is occupied by the reddish, magnitude 0.50 star Betelgeuse or Alpha Orionis. The Winter Triangle first appears in late evening during November. By the end of April it will be disappearing into the western post-sunset twilight. This spring, the even brighter planet Jupiter will gleam off to the triangle's right side.
(Data Courtesy of Starry Night)
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