BBC Sky at Night

Sky at Night magazine is your practical guide to astronomy. Each issue features the world’s biggest and best night sky guide complete with star charts, observing tutorials and in-depth equipment reviews to ensure that amateur astronomers never miss those must-see events.

Welcome • Spot spring’s deep-sky objects from the town or country

HOW TO CONTACT US

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This month’s contributors

Extra content ONLINE • Visit www.skyatnightmagazine.com/bonus-content/XUMIR6E/ to access this month’s selection of exclusive Bonus Content

A COSMIC PICKPOCKET • A huge galaxy steals from a smaller companion as it brushes up against it in this spectacular new image

BULLETIN • The latest astronomy and space news,

Comment

NEWS IN BRIEF

CUTTING EDGE • Our experts examine the hottest new research

INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT • Since February 2014, Maggie Aderin-Pocock has helped present The Sky at Night. She reflects back on her nine years with the show

Looking back: The Sky at Night • 7 April 1984

The Sky at Night APRIL

INTERACTIVE

SCOPE DOCTOR • Our equipment specialist cures your optical ailments and technical maladies

Sky at Night

WHAT’S ON • We pick the best live and virtual astronomy events and resources this month

PICK OF THE MONTH

Why it’s time to update our star stories • Tom Korss on re-imagining star lore for tomorrow’s astronomers

From city lights to deep space • In the first part of a series that looks at urban stargazing through the four seasons, Rod Mollise reveals the wonders you can discover in spring

Top tips for urban observing

Spring sights • Striking constellations to explore above the Milky Way...

APOLLO 16 • Misbehaving engines were among the mishaps on the penultimate Apollo landing. 50 years on, Ezzy Pearson looks back at the mission

MISSION BRIEF

Meet the astronauts

Return to the Moon • The Moon is about to get busy, both in orbit and on the surface

Coming in 2023

The Sky Guide

APRIL HIGHLIGHTS • Your guide to the night sky this month

Family stargazing

NEED TO KNOW • The terms and symbols used in The Sky Guide

THE BIG THREE • The top sights to observe or image this month

THE PLANETS • Our celestial neighbourhood in April

JUPITER’S MOONS: APR

THE NIGHT SKY – APRIL • Explore the celestial sphere with our Northern Hemisphere all-sky chart

MOONWATCH • April’s top lunar feature to observe

COMETS AND ASTEROIDS • Asteroid 10 Hygiea reaches opposition in the constellation of Virgo, the Virgin

STAR OF THE MONTH • Zavijava, the fifth brighest star in Virgo

BINOCULAR TOUR • This month’s highlights include stunning globular M3 and the Black Eye Galaxy, M64

THE SKY GUIDE CHALLENGE • Can you spot and track the progress of sunspot activity?

DEEP-SKY TOUR • This month we venture to the southern region of Coma Berenices, which borders Virgo

AT A GLANCE • How the Sky Guide events will appear in April

Artemis takes aim at the MOON • As Artemis I goes through its final preparations, Niamh Shaw looks at this first step in a programme to return humanity to the Moon permanently

To the Moon and back • The flight path of Artemis I will take it further beyond the Moon than anyone before

Beyond Artemis • Artemis is just the beginning of a long-term return to the Moon

Exploring the dark heart of WALES • The Cambrian Mountains has some of the world’s darkest skies. Jamie Carter takes its Astro Trail to see why Wales is a stargazer’s dream come...