By Erich Karkoschka
Venus is getting better visible at the end of dusk low in the west. By the end of the month, it will have reached Aldebaran in Taurus.
Jupiter transits around sunset 81 degrees high. It moves slowly toward Pollux. Venus is still far away but fast approaching Jupiter.
Mercury is visible until mid-month low at dawn around 5:30 am.
Uranus remains 4 degrees south of the Pleiades, but gets visible only quite low in the sky. The last good possibility of viewing it is on the 23rd when it is visible in binoculars just 0.8 degrees south of Venus.
The moon will be in the evening sky again on the 18th, in the vicinity of Venus. Two days later it can be seen almost overhead (86 degrees high) at 3:30 pm.
On April 20th, there is a rare event that three planets are within a 3 degree circle: Mercury, Mars, and Venus. They are visible from more southern latitudes by naked eye. In Tucson, one will need binoculars to find them around 5:30 am about 5 degrees above the eastern horizon. They will be almost in a straight line.
Around April 22, the Lyrics Meteors are visible after 10 pm.