Just a quick post to let you know about the meteor shower tonight, Saturday April 21. From Sky & Telescope, "The weak but unpredictable Lyrid Meteor Shower should reach maximum activity in the hours before dawn Sunday morning...You might see a dozen Lyrids per hour...before the beginning of dawn."
You know that there are no "falling stars" as stars don't fall. What looks like falling stars are actually meteors. Each year there are predictable meteor showers at certain dates. Cool that we can be informed about them and watch them if we are willing to stay up or get up to do so.
Also from Sky & Telescope, "These spring evenings sport two planet-and-star pairs: Mars with Regulus to its right high in the south, and Saturn with Spica to its right lower in the southeast. Both pairs are now 5 degrees wide."
A great time to view these are in the next few evenings as it is now new moon time so either there won't be a visible moon or it will be small and disappear from the night sky leaving it darker so we can see the stars. Remember that stars twinkle, planets don't.
The planet, Jupiter is now very low in the western horizon right after sunset. Venus is up higher and is brighter in the west.
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