Astronomy web links
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Volume 20 -- Issue 3
March 2014
Welcome to this issue of Qué tal. 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; the sun's
apparent motion and the Earth's real motion along the ecliptic.
For additional useful Earth and Space news, information, and graphics follow my WordPress Blog at bobs-spaces, or as Tweets,
or as an RSS feed.
Click here to watch some of my video work posted on You Tube.
At A Glance:Welcome to this issue of Qué tal.
During March all of the visible planets are visible as either mornig or evening planets.
This month Mercury and Venus are visible in the morning skies before sunrise and both reach their respective greatest western elongations. Mars and
Saturn begin their respective retrograde motions while Jupiter's retrograde motion comes to an end. There will be an occultation of Saturn by our Moon,
and the star Regulus is occulted by an asteroid.
And in the U S A daylight saving time begins on 9 March.
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