NASA held a public naming contest in 2015, just before New Horizons' sweep past Pluto and Charon. The spacecraft mission team has used many of the Charon feature names since. Now the IAU gives the names the nod.
Photographer Yuri Beletsky wrote, “During one of my trips to Atacama Desert we were very lucky to witness such an incredible scene - both the Milky Way and zodiacal light were rising above the Andes mountains in Chile. In the foreground, a lagoon acted as a giant mirror.”
Mercury is starting its best morning appearance for 2018 for the Southern Hemisphere. Northern Hemisphere? You might catch the moon on April 13 (maybe 14), but Mercury will be tougher to see.
