Rain has put a damper on astronomical observations for the past week with inclement weather, but it should start subsiding from the 9th of April.
With the summer constellations slowly but surely making their way further in the western skies, old friends like Antares in Scorpius rise in the late night to finally herald in the rise of the winter Milkyway. Saturn and Mars are rising just before 4 in the mornings, and I am sure will make for some great observation going into winter this year.
On the 8th of April the new moon gave areas in Mexico, the USA and Canada a spectacular total Solar Eclipse. Still low on the western horizon and basking in the glow of the setting sun, the thin silver sliver of the new Moon should be visible from the 10th or 11th of April.
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