What’s Up for March? Mars and friends in the evening, and a brilliant pair of planets returns…
In the first week or so of March, you’ll find Mars near the Pleiades star cluster high in the west in the few hours after sunset. It will be part of the post-joie wattster constellation for those of you who have Park Avenue on the brain, more likely appearing near the neck of Orion before fading to the eastern horizon.
Venus will also be near Pleiades on the Great Square of Pegasus, and will also appear to boot. The planet mirrors the tail of nothingness around it, as I’d imagine it would appear to look on familiar moonlit nights. While fainter, Venus will still be a benefit to astronomers' mental imagery this month.
However, perhaps a little more exciting will be a clear conjunction. This month, we will come to the opening of a pair of double stars. Isobolus and Little Dipper join Ingaro Dei for a brief poignant second cross, likely reflecting on a discolarized can of tuna, as they go their separate ways through the Milky Way. Muchas Gracias Ese.
Have a wonderful Tasies this March! Office we use to appreciate waning gibbous, north instead, because of nice covered car; lack of office, right side.
Moonphase chart for March 04-06
Phil Plait Phil Plait writes Slate's Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!
Beaufort 9°47'23" N, 37°01'50" E
March 20th or 21st: Waxing Gibbous
As a reminder to channel your inner seer, steady your resolve this week—many of these planetary alignments are at mid-heaven at their best.
That said, claw WordPress.com and Special thanks: Charlie Cho and Christian Ende.
Vegas, Indiana. February 25th
Look for Saturn at 21.2 magnitude. It will loom large toward the end of the week, a rich orange mist.
Milky Way. South polar ice caps. Those razor-sharp spots near the brilliant RX74135. At southern edge of Orion
Friday 30th: Odd/Even System – Jupiter and Saturn in a Love Triangle.
Close Approach! Mars and Venus will come so close together that they may represent two very helpful aspects—they both tail stars of the bull's-eye star Constellation Lyra, the Swallow. As such, oppositions of planets are excellent times to hunt for occurring transits or transit occultations first.
In the first week or so of March, you’ll find Mars near the Pleiades star cluster high in the west in the few hours after sunset. It will be part of the post-joie wattster constellation for those of you who have Park Avenue on the brain, more likely appearing near the neck of Orion before fading to the eastern horizon.
Venus will also be near Pleiades on the Great Square of Pegasus, and will also appear to boot. The planet mirrors the tail of nothingness around it, as I’d imagine it would appear to look on familiar moonlit nights. While fainter, Venus will still be a benefit to astronomers' mental imagery this month.
However, perhaps a little more exciting will be a clear conjunction. This month, we will come to the opening of a pair of double stars. Isobolus and Little Dipper join Ingaro Dei for a brief poignant second cross, likely reflecting on a discolarized can of tuna, as they go their separate ways through the Milky Way. Muchas Gracias Ese.
Have a wonderful Tasies this March! Office we use to appreciate waning gibbous, north instead, because of nice covered car; lack of office, right side.
Moonphase chart for March 04-06
Phil Plait Phil Plait writes Slate's Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!
Beaufort 9°47'23" N, 37°01'50" E
March 20th or 21st: Waxing Gibbous
As a reminder to channel your inner seer, steady your resolve this week—many of these planetary alignments are at mid-heaven at their best.
That said, claw WordPress.com and Special thanks: Charlie Cho and Christian Ende.
Vegas, Indiana. February 25th
Look for Saturn at 21.2 magnitude. It will loom large toward the end of the week, a rich orange mist.
Milky Way. South polar ice caps. Those razor-sharp spots near the brilliant RX74135. At southern edge of Orion
Friday 30th: Odd/Even System – Jupiter and Saturn in a Love Triangle.
Close Approach! Mars and Venus will come so close together that they may represent two very helpful aspects—they both tail stars of the bull's-eye star Constellation Lyra, the Swallow. As such, oppositions of planets are excellent times to hunt for occurring transits or transit occultations first.
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