Volume 19 -- Issue 03 Sky Watch Calendar -- March 2013 01. Supplies Launched to ISS 02. Waning Gibbous Near Saturn 04. Last Quarter Moon Waning Near Antares Mercury at Inferior Conjunction 05. Moon at Perigee - 369,957 km Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)    Closest Approach To Earth 06. Moon Close to Pluto Cassini Flyby of Moon Rhea 10. Spring Forward! Set Clocks Ahead 1 Hour Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)    Closest Approach To Sun 11. New Moon Sun Enters Astronomical    Sign of Pisces 13. Waxing Crescent Moon and Comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS) 14. Waxing Crescent Moon near Hamal 16. Mercury Ends Retrograde Motion Waxing Crescent Moon near the Pleiades 17. Waxing Crescent Moon near Jupiter 18. MESSENGER End of Extended Mission 19. First Quarter Moon Moon at Apogee - 404,261 km 20. March Equinox - 6:01 CDT Sun Enters astrological    Sign of Aries 22. Waxing Gibbous Moon near the Twins 24. Waxing Gibbous Moon near Regulus Comet C/2012 F6 Lemmon    Closest Approach to Sun 27. Full Moon 28. Venus at Superior Conjunction Waning Gibbous Moon near Spica 29. Uranus at Solar Conjunction Waning Gibbous Moon near Saturn 31. Moon at Perigee - 367, 504 km Mercury at Western Elongation Waning Gibbous Moon near Antares