This month I thought I'd share some of my favourite tunes featuring an astronomy link:

1. 'Venus in Blue Jeans' by Mark Wynter
2. 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' by Bonnie Tyler
3. 'Flash' by Queen
4. 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft' - The Carpenters
5. 'O Superman' by Laurie Anderson
6. 'Space/Time Continuum' by Vangelis
7. 'Life on Mars' by David Bowie
8. 'In the Year 2525' by Zager and Evans
9. 'Telstar' by The Tornados
10. 'Across the Universe' by The Beatles

That's my top ten, how's about letting me know your favourites?

Before sunrise on 25 April the waning Moon, Mars, Saturn and one of the Roman Royal stars, 1st magnitude Antares (alpha Scorpii), will be within 10° of each other. Worth setting the alarm for!

• 04: The Moon passes 2° north of Neptune
• 05: The 6m-wide asteroid 2016 FW13 will pass Earth within the orbit of the Moon
• 06: The Moon passes 0.7° north of Venus
• 06: The 1.5km-wide asteroid 2002 AJ29 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 07: New Moon
• 07: The Moon is at perigee (closest to Earth)
• 07: The 18m-wide asteroid 2016 FT13 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 08: All four Galilean moons will be on one side of Jupiter
• 08: The 1.2km-wide asteroid 2002 EB3 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 08: The Moon passes 5° south of Mercury
• 10: The 1.6km-wide asteroid 2009 KJ will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 10: The Moon passes 0.3° north of Aldebaran (alpha Tauri)
• 11: The 28m-wide asteroid 2016 FV13 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 11: All four Galilean moons will be on one side of Jupiter
• 13: The 175m-wide asteroid 2005 GR33 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 13: The 24m-wide asteroid 2016 FL12 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 14: The 37m-wide asteroid 2016 FS14 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 15: The 36m-wide asteroid 2016 FL13 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 16: The 10m-wide asteroid 2008 HU4 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 17: The 24m-wide asteroid 2016 FY12 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 18: The Moon passes 2° south of Jupiter
• 18: All four Galilean moons will be on one side of Jupiter
• 19: The 13m-wide asteroid 2016 FN13 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 21: The Moon is at apogee (furthest from Earth)
• 22: Full Moon - the Pink Moon or the Fish Moon
• 22: The Lyrid meteor shower peak
• 23: The 21m-wide asteroid 2016 FH12 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 24: The Moon passes 5° north of Mars
• 24/25: Comet Ikeya-Murakami passes within 0.5° of Regulus (alpha Leonis)
• 25: The Moon passes 3° north of Saturn
• 25: The 310m-wide asteroid 2016 FY3 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon
• 28: The 1.8km-wide asteroid 2001 VG5 will pass Earth beyond the orbit of the Moon

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