CANOPUS 00/04 - In the Sky this Month

In the Sky this Month

April 2000

dd hh	dd hh
2 12 Mercury 1.5 N of Moon	11 13 FIRST QUARTER
3 05 Venus 2.7 N of Moon	16 23 Mars 2.4 N of Saturn
4 18 NEW MOON	18 18 FULL MOON
6 10 Mars 5.5 N of Moon	24 11 Moon at apogee
6 10 Jupiter 4.4 N of Moon	26 18 Neptune 0.9 N of Moon Occn.
6 21 Saturn 3.0 N of Moon	26 20 LAST QUARTER
6 23 Mars 1.1 N of Jupiter	27 22 Uranus 1.2 N of Moon
8 20 Moon at perigee	28 08 Mercury 0.4 S of Venus

May 2000

dd hh	dd hh
3 07 Venus 4.0 N of Moon	14 07 Mercury greatest brilliancy
3 14 Mercury 4.3 N of Moon	17 10 Venus 0.1 N of Jupiter
4 04 NEW MOON	18 08 FULL MOON
4 07 Jupiter 4.2 N of Moon	18 20 Venus 1.3 N of Saturn
4 12 Saturn 2.9 N of Moon	19 02 Mars 6.1 N of Aldebaran
5 06 Mars 4.9 N of Moon	19 12 Mercury 7.2 N of Aldebaran
6 09 Moon at perigee	19 17 Mercury 1.1 N of Mars
8 04 Jupiter in conj. with Sun	22 01 Moon at apogee
8 08 Neptune stationary	24 02 Neptune 1.3 N of Moon
8 21 Mercury 0.9 N of Jupiter	25 06 Uranus 1.5 N of Moon
9 03 Mercury in superior conjn.	25 12 Uranus stationary
10 03 Mercury 2.3 N of Saturn	26 12 LAST QUARTER
10 20 FIRST QUARTER	31 11 Jupiter 1.2 N of Saturn
10 20 Saturn in conj. with Sun

LOCAL TIMES of RISE and SET for the MAJOR PLANETS, 2000

Site Location:- Long. +28.0 deg. Lat. -26.0 deg. Local Time:- UT +2.0 hrs.

Date	Sun	Mercury	Venus	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn
	.Rise Set..	.Rise Set..	.Rise Set..	.Rise Set..	.Rise Set..	.Rise Set..
Apr 10	06.22 17.56	04.31 16.52	05.09 17.13	08.05 19.07	07.56 19.04	08.20 19.26
Apr 20	06.27 17.46	05.01 16.58	05.24 17.09	07.59 18.51	07.27 18.32	07.46 18.50
Apr 30	06.32 17.38	05.45 17.10	05.40 17.06	07.53 18.37	06.59 18.01	07.12 18.15

May 10	06.37 17.31	06.42 17.34	05.56 17.05	07.46 18.23	06.30 17.29	06.39 17.40
May 20	06.43 17.26	07.44 18.10	06.14 17.07	07.39 18.10	06.02 16.58	06.05 17.05
May 30	06.48 17.23	08.27 18.44	06.31 17.11	07.31 17.58	05.33 16.27	05.31 16.30