Your Night Sky Highlights for the UK – April 2026

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Your guide to the night sky this month,
and a guide for binoculars, and telescope deaf owners,
compiled by Derek Rowley
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2026 April

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All the times are shown in Universal Times (BST),
applicable for Milton Keynes.

Thursday 2nd

• Full Moon

Thursday 2nd

• Moon & Spica

Friday 3rd

• Mercury at greatest elongation west.

Tuesday 7th

• Moon near Antares.

Tuesday 7th

• The Moon at apogee

Friday 10th

• Last Quarter Moon

Tursday 16th

• Moon & three planets

Sunday 19th

• The Moon at Perigee.

Sunday 19th

• The Moon above Venus & M45.

Monday 20th

• Conjunction of Mars, Saturn & Mercury.

Wednesday 22nd

• Lyrids Meteor Shower tonight

Wednesday 22nd

• Conjunction of the Moon and Jupiter.

Friday 24th

• First Quarter Moon

Friday 24th

• Lunar X & V

Saturday 25th

• Moon & Regulus

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