Young Moon between Mercury and Saturn (after sunset)
Mercury will continue to climb higher above Saturn in the western sky after sunset each evening (red dotted path). For observers in the Americas on Friday, February 28, the very…
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Monthly Night Sky information provided by Chris Vaughan (@Astrogeoguy) at Starry Night Education (@StarryNightEdu).
Astronomical Events
Earthshine Moon with Mercury and Venus
The western sky after sunset on Saturday, March 1 will provide us with a spectacular sight and a lovely photo opportunity. The sliver of a crescent moon will shine below…
Crescent Moon Crosses the Pleiades (evening)
Once the has sky darkened on Tuesday evening, April 1, look in the lower part of the western sky, where the bright little Pleiades Star Cluster (aka The Seven Sisters,…
Pretty Moon Joins Jupiter (evening)
Another 24 hours of eastward orbital motion will place the slightly fuller crescent moon less than a palm’s width to the upper right (or 5 degrees to the celestial north)…
Lunar Craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina (evening)
On Thursday evening, April 3, the terminator boundary that separtes the moon’s lit and dark hemispheres will fall just to the left of a trio of large craters named Theophilus,…
