The Lyrid meteor shower should be at its best the next couple of nights. Even at its peak, the shower produces no more than a dozen or so meteors per hour. But the Moon won't get in the way, so if you have good weather and a good viewing spot, it's worth a look.
Weekly Stargazing Tips
Provided by StarDate.org. Unless otherwise specified, viewing times are local time regardless of time zone, and are good for the entire Lower 48 states (and, generally, for Alaska and Hawaii).
April 20: Lyrid Meteors
April 21: Venus and Uranus
The planets Venus and Uranus cross paths in the evening sky this week. Venus is the Evening Star. Uranus is a couple of degrees to its upper left tonight, and is easy to see with binoculars. They will be even closer on Thursday, standing almost side by side.
April 22: Moon and Jupiter
The planet Jupiter appears just below the Moon tonight. It looks like a brilliant star. Through binoculars, Jupiter's four largest moons look like tiny stars quite close to the planet.
April 23: Thick Ice
The planet Jupiter is high in the west at nightfall. It looks like a brilliant star. In all the night sky, only the Moon and the planet Venus outshine it. The stars Pollux and Castor, the twins of Gemini, stand above it.
April 24: Pointing the Way
Venus, the brilliant Evening Star, points the way to two other wonders right now: the planet Uranus and the Pleiades star cluster. The Pleiades looks like a tiny dipper to the right of Venus. Uranus is a little closer below Venus, but you need binoculars to see it.
April 25: Moon and Regulus
As seen from the eastern United States, the Moon will occult Regulus this evening, passing in front of Leo's brightest star and blocking it from view. The rest of the country will see an impressively close encounter between them.
April 26: Crow and Cup
The faint constellations Corvus and Crater flow across the southern evening sky at this time of year. In mythology, the god Apollo sent Corvus, the crow, to fill Crater, the cup, with water. He failed, and the angry god hurled both crow and cup into the heavens.