Local Sky Events

March

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  • Moon: Third Quarter Mar 2nd; New on the 9th, First quarter 16th and Full on the 24th.
  • March 10 Daylight Savings time begins at 2:00 AM. Set your clocks ahead 1 hour.
  • March 24 Mercury reaches greatest eastern elongation from the sun 12 degrees above the west-northwestern horizon at dusk. Binoculars will be useful for this early evening event.
  • Jupiter is high the west in southern Aries shining at magnitude -2.3 and dominates the evening sky. Saturn is heading toward the sun and below the horizon.
  • Venus and Mars rise in the southeastern sky separated by less than 5 degrees about a half hour before sunrise.

 

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