Monday, March 20, 2023
Thursday March 23 to Thursday March 30
The First Quarter Moon is Wednesday, March 29. Venus is just above the thin crescent Moon on the 24th. Saturn is low in the morning twilight. Bright Mars, the stars Elnath and Zeta Taurii, the stars that form the tips of the Horns of the Bull, form a triangle. Mars is close to the Moon on the 28th.
The First Quarter Moon is Wednesday, March 22.
Morning
sky on Saturday, March 25 as seen from Adelaide at 05:58 ACDST, (90 minutes before sunrise, click
to embiggen). Saturn is low above the horizon.
Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent
local time (90 minutes before sunrise).
Evening sky on Friday, March 24 as seen from Adelaide at 20:17 ACDST, (60 minutes after sunset, click
to embiggen). Venus is low above the horizon with the thin crescent Moon below. You will need an unobstructed horizon to see the pair at their best.
Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent
local time (60 minutes after sunset).
Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at the equivalent
local time (60 minutes after sunset).
Between the bright star
Canopus and the Southern Cross are another wealth of binocular objects to
discover.
Elsewhere
in Australia will see a similar view at the equivalent time (90 minutes after sunset).
Mercury is lost in the morning twilight.
Venus climbs higher in the twilight and is above the thin crescent Moon on the 25th.
Mars the star Elnath and Zeta Taurii the stars that form the tips of the Horns of the Bull, form a triangle. The Moon joins mars on the 28th.
Jupiter is now lost in the twilight.
Saturn climbs higher in the morning skies.
Star Map via Virtual sky. Use your mouse to scroll around and press 8 when your pointer is in the map to set to the current time.
Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.
Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds (day and night) http://satview.bom.gov.au/
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