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Volume 19 -- Issue 03
Planet Watch -- March 2013

Comet (C/2011 L4 PanSTAARS) hopefully will still be visible as it crosses the stars of Andromeda heading for a flyby of the andromeda Galaxy, M-31 on April 3rd to 4th.
Mercury is between the Sun and the Earth early this month and then moves westward to elongation at the end of the month.
Venus is too close to the Sun and reaches superior conjunction on the 28th. We will not see Venus until it reappears over the western horizon as an 'evening planet' during May.

Mars is too close to the Sun and is at superior conjunction around the middle of next month.
Jupiter is well above the eastern horizon after sunset, shining brightly near the reddish star Aldebaran and the stars of the open cluster, the Hyades. Jupiter sets around midnight local time.
Saturn rises before midnight local time is moving in retrograde motion this month.