Here you will find useful observing information about the visible planets,
our Moon and other moons, the Sun, as well as various 'things' celestial.
Among these web pages you will find monthly star maps for either the northern or southern hemisphere that are suitable for printout.
Animated images are utilized to illustrate celestial motions such as orbital motions of the planets, and other solar orbiting objects,
or apparent and real motions along the ecliptic and the local horizon. Regular features include plotting the monthly positions of the
visible planets using heliocentric coordinates; following - moon phases; conjunctions; Sun's apparent, and Earth's real
motion along the ecliptic.
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March Sky Calendar | ||||
01. Last Quarter Moon 05. Mars-Moon Conjunction 06. Saturn-Moon Conjunction 07. Venus-Moon Conjunction Moon at Perigee: 222,913 miles (358,850 km) 08. Moon at Ascending Node Total Solar Eclipse New Moon |
10. Jupiter-Moon Conjunction 11. Pleiades-Moon Conjunction Mercury at Inferior Conjunction 15. Pollux-Moon Conjunction First Quarter Moon |
17. Regulus-Moon Conjunction 19. Moon at Apogee: 251,969 miles (405,625 km) 22. Lyrid Meteor Shower Peak Moon at Descending Node Spica-Moon Conjunction 23. Full Moon 27. Antares-Moon Conjunction |
Planet coordinate data for the visible planets and the Sun at 10-day intervals for this month.
Click here to see the
web page showing this information, and also for a larger and easier to read version of the above graphic.