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OBSERVING
March 2019
1–3 DAWN: Venus, Saturn, and 13 EVENING: Find the Moon, still 21 EVENING: Algol shines at
Jupiter arc across the southeastern
sky with the waning crescent Moon
initially some 3°° right of Saturn. Follow
the ever-thinning Moon over the next
two mornings as it first moves to 4½°
right of Venus and then 7° lower left
of the planet. in Taurus, about halfway between
Aldebaran and Zeta Tauri. minimum brightness for roughly two
hours centered at 10:04 p.m. EDT
(7:04 p.m. PDT).
18–19 ALL NIGHT: The waxing
gibbous Moon and Regulus traverse
the night sky together, starting only
2° apart at dusk, with the gap between
them widening to 5½° before dawn.
1 EVENING: Algol shines at
minimum brightness for roughly two
hours centered at 7:19 p.m. EST; see
page 50.
Moon, in Libra, traverses the sky some
4° from Alpha Librae.
26–29 MORNING: Around 25°
18–19 NIGHT: Algol shines at
minimum brightness for roughly two
hours centered at 10:15 p.m. PDT
(1:15 a.m. EDT).
10 DAYLIGHT-SAVING TIME STARTS
at 2 a.m. for most of the United States
and Canada.
23–24 NIGHT: The waning gibbous
20 SPRING BEGINS in the Northern
Hemisphere at the equinox, 5:58 p.m.
EDT (2:58 p.m. PDT).
separates Jupiter and Saturn in the
southeast. Watch over the next four
mornings as the waning gibbous Moon
moves from 9° upper right of Jupiter,
to in between the two planets for the
following two mornings, and finally 3°
left of Saturn.
— DIANA HANNIKAINEN
11 EVENING: After sunset, follow the
waxing crescent Moon and Mars, some
7° apart, as they drop lower in the west.
They set together around midnight.
12 EVENING: The growing Moon is in
the outskirts of the Hyades, the open
cluster in Taurus.
21 EVENING: The soft glow of the
zodiacal light is visible at mid-northern
latitudes from dark sites during the
next two weeks. Look toward the west
in deepening twilight for a hazy pyramid
of light stretching up through Taurus to
Gemini, tilted slightly to the left.
p The zodiacal light tilts up over Lake Supe-
rior near Duluth, Minnesota, at dawn on Oc-
tober 18, 2018. The cone of light is composed
of comet and asteroid dust in the plane of the
solar system. BOB KING
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