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Read the following article for tips and dark sky locations from 5280 magazine's edition on Colorado stargazing: https://www.5280.com/2022/04/your-guide-to-stargazing-in-colorado/

• Front cover: “Cone and Fur Fox Area” by Stephen Garretson
• LAS Zoom meeting on April 21 at 7pm - “The Visible Broadband Imager of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope” by Friedrich Woeger
• Notes for the March 17 meeting by Vern Raben, secretary
• Newsletter archive notes for April 2012 and 2002
• Navigating the mid April Night Sky by John Goss
• The Planets in April by Vern Raben
• Celestial Events in April by John Goss
• Comets C/2019 L3 (ATLAS), 19P/Borrelly, C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), and C/2021 O3 (PANSTARRS) in April
• More amazing phots March by member imagers
• Back cover: “Rosette” by Rolando Garcia

NASA will send your name to space on Artemis I. Apply to upload your name to a flash drive that will be sent on this space mission and flown around the moon! See https://www.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/ for more details.

NASA added 65 new exoplanets to their planetary archive, bringing the total to 5,000 worlds. They found, "30% are gas giants, 31% are super-Earths, and 35% are Neptune-like. Just 4% are terrestrial, or rocky planets like Earth or Mars."

Read more in the following article: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/21/world/5000-exoplanets-confirmation-nasa-scn/index.html