What’s Up in the Sky? March 2025
March’s Evening Planets:
Bright Venus will be in Pisces the Fish until around 8 PM in the first half of the month. Find Jupiter will be in Taurus the Bull and Mars in Gemini the Twins all night. You can see Mercury in Pisces the Fish for one hour after sunset in the first half of March. Uranus is between Cetus the Sea-monster and Aries the Ram until around midnight.
March’s Evening Stars:
The Winter Triangle will be up until around midnight this month: Sirius, the brightest star viewed from Earth, is in Canis Major the Great Dog; Betelgeuse is in Orion the Hunter; and Procyon is in Canis Minor the Small Dog. Spot Capella in Auriga the Charioteer, Spica in Virgo the Maiden, Arcturus in Boötes the Herdsman, Aldebaran in Taurus the Bull, and bright Castor and Pollux in Gemini the Twins. Also find the stars of constellations Cassiopeia, Perseus, Cepheus, Leo, Hydra, Draco, Hercules, and Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (the Big and Little Dippers).
March’s Morning Planets:
Bright Venus is in Pisces the Fish as of 6 AM in the last week of March. Mars will be Gemini the twins all until around 4 AM. Dwarf Pluto will be in Sagittarius the Archer as of 5 AM and lingering until sunrise.
March’s Morning Stars:
The Summer Triangle of Vega in Lyra the Harp, Deneb in Cygnus the Swan, and Altair in Aquila the Eagle will be up until sunrise. Look for reddish Antares in Scorpius the Scorpion, Castor and Pollux in Gemini the Twins, Arcturus in Boötes the Herdsman, and Spica in Virgo the Maiden, along with the stars of constellations Leo, Hercules, Libra, Cancer, Cassiopeia, Ophiuchus, Cepheus, Draco, and Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (the Big and Little Dippers).
March Skylights
March 1 Moon at perigee (224,900 miles away)
March 3 Mars, Jupiter, Moon, and Venus line up – Dusk
March 6 First Quarter Moon at 11:30 AM
March 8 Moon is 1½ ° above Mars – Dusk
March 12 Conjunction of Saturn and the Sun, sunrise
March 14 Full Moon at 2:55 AM
March 14 Full Lunar Eclipse, Full 6:26 -7:31 AM
March 17 Moon at apogee (252,100 miles away)
March 20 Vernal Equinox at 5:00 AM
March 22 Third Quarter Moon 7:30 AM
March 29 New Moon at 7:00 AM
March 29 Partial Solar Eclipse, Maximum around 6:47 AM
March 30 Moon at perigee (222,500 miles away)
(Times given in EDT)
