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 | ||||
03. Antares-Moon Conjunction Last Quarter Moon 07. Mars-Moon Conjunction 08. Venus-Moon Conjunction 10. Moon at Perigee: 221,698 miles (356,895 km) New Moon 11. Moon at Ascending Node |
13. Jupiter-Moon Conjunction 14. Pleiades-Moon Conjunction 16. First Quarter Moon 17. Neptune at Solar Conjunction Mercury at Perihelion 18. Pollux-Moon Conjunction 19. Venus at Aphelion March Equinox (10:06 pm CDT) |
21. Venus-Saturn Conjunction Regulus-Moon Conjunction 23. Moon at Apogee: 252383 miles (406,292 km) 24. Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation: 18.7°E 25. Full Moon Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Moon at Descending Node 26. Spica-Moon Conjunction 30. 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.