• 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

Evening Sky:

• Mercury – in west
• Uranus – in west
• Jupiter – in east

Midnight:

• Jupiter – in south

Morning Sky:

• Neptune – in east
• Venus – in east
• Mars – in south
• Jupiter – in west
• Saturn – in south

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

• 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.