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Inner Meets Outers – In A Triple Conjunction
Sunday morning February 28th the innermost planet, Mercury, and two of the ringed outer planets, Jupiter and Saturn, will be in a triple conjunction as Mercury moves eastward past Saturn and then...
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March Moon at 2nd Perigee
Our Moon reaches perigee, (closest to Earth), for the second time this orbit, on Tuesday March 30th. For this perigee the 18-day old waning gibbous Moon will be at a distance of 28.24 Earth...
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Earth Hour 2021
Saturday March 27th is the annual Earth Hour celebration. Started in 2007 the Earth Hour celebration is a world-wide citizen-powered effort to call attention to our planet’s environment and the need...
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March Equinox – 2021
Saturday March 20th is an equinox day. While typically called the Vernal or Spring Equinox it is more globally appropriate to call this day the March Equinox as it is the start of Fall in the...
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Waxing Crescent Moon – Mars Conjunction
Friday evening March 19th look for the 6.7-day old waxing crescent Moon to be about 3o from the ‘Red Planet’ Mars, and about 5-6o from the reddish star Aldebaran in Taurus the Bull. All three should...
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A 3-for-1 Moon Event!
Apogee – Descending Node – Conjunction with the Pleiades Apogee Moon Our Moon reaches apogee, (furthest from Earth), for this orbit, on Thursday March 18th. For this apogee the...
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Sun Enters Astronomical Constellation Pisces the Fishes
Thursday March 11th the Sun in its apparent eastward motion along the ecliptic, moves out of the constellation Aquarius the Water Bearer and into the constellation of Pisces the Fishes. This is the...
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Neptune at 2021 Solar conjunction
Wednesday March 10th the outer ringed planet Neptune will reach a point in its respective orbit where Neptune will be on the opposite side of the Sun as viewed from here on Earth. Neptune, or any of...
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Waning Crescent Moon – Saturn/Jupiter/Mercury Conjunctions
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, March 9th and 10th, the thin waning crescent Moon wil be passing by the planets Saturn. Jupiter, and the inner planet Mercury. On the 9th the 26-day old waning crescent...
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Mercury at Western Elongation
On Saturday March 6th Mercury, the innermost planet, will reach its orbital position known as greatest western elongation at 27.3o. At that moment Mercury, the Sun, and the Earth, would be arranged...
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Moon Dodges the Scorpion at Descending Node
Friday March 5th the 22-day old last quarter Moon crosses the plane of the ecliptic moving south. This is known as the descending node, one of two intersections the Moon’s orbital path (dark green...
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Inner Meets Outers – In A Triple Conjunction
Sunday morning February 28th the innermost planet, Mercury, and two of the ringed outer planets, Jupiter and Saturn, will be in a triple conjunction as Mercury moves eastward past Saturn and then...
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Moon on the Move – Always
Over the next few evenings the waxing gibbous Moon will move eastward passing by the open star cluster known as the Beehive Cluster this evening and then in a couple of days, as a full Moon, will...
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Sun Not In Pisces-2021
According to the pseudoscience of astrology the Sun enters the constellation of Pisces the Fishes on Thursday February 18th. In fact the actual position of the Sun is still within the boundary of...
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February Moon at Apogee
Our Moon reaches apogee, (furthest from Earth), for this orbit, on Thursday February 18th. For this apogee the 7.25-day old waxing crescent Moon will be at a distance of 31.70 Earth diameters,...
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The Moon, Mars, and NASA’s Perseverance
Thursday evening February 18th the 7-day old almost first quarter but still waxing crescent Moon will be about 3o from the ‘Red Planet’ Mars. Despite the -11.75 apparent magnitude of the Moon Mars,...
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Moon – Uranus Conjunction
Wednesday evening February 17th the 6-day old waxing crescent Moon will be about 3-4o from the outer and ringed Planet Uranus. While the Moon with an apparent magnitude of -11.5 will certainly be...
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Eppur Si Muove
February 15th is Galileo Day. Quoting Galileo, “and yet it still moves”, in reference to the Earth actually orbiting the Sun. So how to acknowledge his achievements and contributions to modern...
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Springtime on Mars!
A Martian Year – at One Earth Month Intervals Four days ago, February 2nd, we ‘celebrated'(?) Groundhog Day where in the Northern Hemisphere if the groundhog sees its shadow there will be 6 more...
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Mars at Eastern Quadrature
Monday February 1st the position of the planet Mars, with respect to the Earth and the Sun, places this planet at what is called eastern quadrature. At that orbital position Mars, and actually any...
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