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| - | ====== Sky Highlights and NEKAAL Events for MARCH 2016 ====== | ||
| - | * March 8 -- __**New Moon**__\\ | ||
| - | * March 15 -- First Quarter\\ | ||
| - | * March 23 -- Full Moon | ||
| - | * March 24 -- General Meeting, Topeka Library, 7 pm. Join us! | ||
| - | * March 31 -- Last Quarter | ||
| - | ===== PLANETS in March 2016 ===== | ||
| - | Evening Sky: | ||
| - | * **Mercury** -- in west | ||
| - | * **Uranus** -- in west | ||
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in east | ||
| - | Midnight: | + | For sky highlights see: |
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in south | + | |
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| - | Morning Sky: | + | |
| - | * **Neptune** -- in east | + | |
| - | * **Venus** -- in east | + | |
| - | * **Mars** -- in south | + | |
| - | * **Jupiter** -- in west | + | |
| - | * **Saturn** -- in south | + | |
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| - | ===== CONSTELLATIONS well placed in evening during March 2016 ===== | + | |
| - | North to South, at 9-10 pm: | + | |
| - | * **Ursa Minor**, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper | + | |
| - | * **Camelopardalis**, the Giraffe | + | |
| - | * **Perseus**, the King of Mycenae and slayer of monsters | + | |
| - | * **Auriga**, the Charioteer | + | |
| - | * **Gemini**, the Twins | + | |
| - | * **Canis Minor**, the smaller dog | + | |
| - | * **Orion**, the Hunter | + | |
| - | * **Canis Major**, the bigger dog | + | |
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| - | ===== SKY EXTRAS in March 2016 ===== | + | |
| - | * Vernal Equinox, the astronomical beginning of Spring, is at 11:30 pm on March 19. For you astronomy wonks: this is when the sun's Right Ascension is exactly Zero. | + | |
| - | * Around midnight, March 21, very bright Jupiter and the even brighter moon pass within 2 degrees of each other. | + | |
| - | * Also on March 21, from twilight to about 10:30 pm, Jupiter will show shadows of two of its major moon. You'll need at least a small telescope, but around 10 pm Jupiter will be high in the sky for great viewing. | + | |
| - | * Comet **Catalina C/2013 US10** will fade rapidly but will still be visible in binoculars all month of March, relatively high in early evenings, in the constellation Camelopardalis. | + | |
| - | * No great meteor showers this month. | + | |
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| + | [[http://www.astronomy.com/observing/sky-this-week|Astronomy Magazine's Sky This Week]] | ||
