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Volume 22 -- Issue 3
Sky Watch Calendar -- March 2016
01.
Last Quarter Moon
Moon Near Saturn and Mars
02.
Moon Near Saturn and Antares
04.
Moon Near Dwarf Planet Pluto
06.
Saturn at West Quadrature
07. Thin Waning Crescent Moon
   Moon Near Venus
08.
Jupiter at Opposition
09.
New Moon
Total Solar Eclipse
Moon at Descending Node
10.
Moon at Perigee - 359,510 km
11.
Sun Enters the Astronomical
   Sign of Pisces
12. Mercury at Southern
   Most Declination (-7.0o)
13. Waxing Crescent Moon
   Moon Near the Pleiades
Daylight Saving Time Begins in the U.S.A.
15.
First Quarter Moon
20.
March Equinox
Sun Does Not Enter the
   Astrological Sign of Aries
21. Waxing Gibbous Moon
   Moon Near Jupiter
22.
Moon at Ascending Node
23. Full Moon
Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Mercury at Superior Conjunction
24. Waning Gibbous Moon
   Moon Near Spica
25.
Moon at Apogee - 405,383km
Saturn Begins Retrograde Motion
27.
European Summer Time
   Set Clocks Forward 1 Hour
28. Waning Gibbous Moon
   Moon Near Mars
29. Waning Gibbous Moon
   Moon Near Saturn
31.
Last Quarter Moon


2016 Moon Phases from NASA GSFC and LRO

(These are videos on YouTube)