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I forgot about the Messier Marathon when I first sent this out, and had the time and location for Leon Lederman's talk wrong. Here's the right stuff!
01 Wed Ash Wednesday; First day of Lent
Uranus in conjunction with Sun @ 6 AM EST, enters morning sky
Mercury stationary in right ascension; begins retrograde motion
02 Thu Asteroid Metis @ opposition, 5 PM EST
03 Fri TAS Sidewalk Astronomy @ Lake Ella, dusk
04 Sat Jupiter stationary in right ascension; begins retrograde motion
Starlab shows @ MOAS, 1 & 2 PM EST
05 Sun Moon 0.4 deg NNE from center of Pleiades @ 10 AM EST
06 Mon Moon 3 deg N of Mars @ 2 AM EST
First Quarter Moon @ 3:16 PM EST
10 Fri Moon 4 deg N of Saturn @ 1 PM EST
Mars 7 deg N of Aldebaran @ 7 PM EST
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars
11 Sat Mercury in inferior conjunction @ 10 PM EST
Moon 3 deg NNE of Beehive cluster @ 8 PM EST
12 Sun Moon @ apogee (252,450 miles from Earth) @ 8:45 PM EST
13 Mon Solar flare caused power grid failure in Canada, 1989
14 Tue Full Moon @ 6:33 PM EST (Sap or Lenten Moon)
penumbral lunar eclipse (last one of this type until after 2050)
15 Wed Ides of March
16 Thu TSS talk on Science Education by Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman
Department of Physics @ FSU, 3:30 PM
17 Fri St. Patrick’s Day
Moon 0.3 deg N of Spica @ 6 AM EST
19 Sun Moon 5 deg S of Jupiter @ 9 AM EST
20 Mon Spring or Vernal equinox @ 1:26 PM EST
Moon 0.3 deg S of Antares @ 10 PM EST
22 Wed Last Quarter Moon @ 2:11 PM EST
25 Sat Venus @ greatest western elongation (47°), 2 AM EST
Moon 6 deg S of Venus @ 6 PM EST
TAS observing @ Starhill MESSIER MARATHON
Cookout and stay up all night and get your pin!
26 Sun Venus 1.9 deg N of Neptune @ 4 PM EST
27 Mon Moon 2 deg S of Mercury @ noon EST
28 Tue Moon @ perigee (223,177 miles from Earth), 2:13 AM EST
29 Wed New Moon @ 5:15 AM EST
total solar eclipse (Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia)
March “comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb” – this saying refers to blizzards and mild weather, but perhaps the images came to mind because in the March evening sky Aries (the Ram) is setting while Leo (the Lion) is approaching the zenith.
Looking to the southern horizon now – toward Vela, due south from the head of Hydra – you are looking backward in our journey around the Galaxy.
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