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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

 

The Sky This Week - Thursday March 28 to Thursday April 4

The Last Quarter Moon is Thursday, March 28. Mars is visible low in the evening skies and is in binocular range of the Pleiades cluster being best around the 31st.  Jupiter enters the evening skies and is close to the Moon on the 28th. The morning skies feature Saturn, bright Venus and Mercury. The crescent Moon is close to Venus on the 2nd and close to Mercury on the 3rd.

The Last Quarter Moon is Thursday, March 28. The Moon is at apogee, when it is furthest from the earth, on the 1st.

Morning  sky on Wednesday, April 3 looking east as seen from Adelaide at 6:36 ACDST (60 minutes before sunrise). Jupiter (out of view in this images) is high in the morning sky above Saturn, Venus and Mercury. The crescent Moon is between Venus and Mercury. The left upper insert inset shows the telescopic view of Venus at this time and the upper right that of Saturn.


 Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at the equivalent local time (60 minutes before sunrise).

Morning  sky on Thursday, March 28 looking east as seen from Adelaide at 0:15 ACDST (15 minutes after midnight). Jupiter is low above the eastern horizon just above the Moon. The last quarter Moon is between Jupiter and Saturn. The left upper insert inset shows the telescopic view of Jupiter at this time

Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia at the equivalent local time .
Evening sky on Sunday, March 31 as seen looking north-west from Adelaide at 20:36 ACDST (90 minutes after sunset). Mars is the brightest object above the western horizon.

The Pleiades and Hyades also grace the north-western sky. Mars is close to the Pleiades over the week and is within binocular distance most of the week, being closest from the 29th to the 1st.

Similar views will be seen throughout Australia at the equivalent local time (90 minutes after sunset, click to embiggen).

Venus is bright in the morning skies below Jupiter and Saturn. It is visited by the crescent Moon on the 2nd.

Mercury  climbs higher in the morning sky and is visible below Venus. On the 3rd the thin crescent Moon is close to Mercury.

Jupiter  Jupiter is now rising just before midnight in the evening sky, but is low to the horizon and not a good telescope target until the morning. Jupiter is close to the last quarter Moon on the 28th.

Mars moves through Taurus and is the brightest object in low in the western evening sky. Mars sets around 9:30pm. Mars is close to the Pleiades over the week and is within binocular distance most of the week, being closest from the 29th to the 1st.

Saturn is climbs higher in the morning sky. The Moon is close to Saturn on the 29th and 30th.

 Printable PDF maps of the Eastern sky at 10 pm AEDST, Western sky at 10 pm AEDST. For further details and more information on what's up in the sky, see Southern Skywatch.

Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.

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