Table of Contents
| March 1 | A ‘heavenly smiley face’ ‘ |
| March 5 | The Moon and Jupiter Rendezvous |
| March 13 | ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse |
| March 14 | Full worm |
| March 20 | Vernal (spring) Equinox |
| March 22 | Venus becomes the morning star again |
Although the Grand Planetary Parade of February may be behind us, March still offers good opportunities to see many of the participants of the Parade – especially Mercury. The smallest planet of the solar system is relatively easy to recognize during the first half of the month. There is also a full lunar eclipse to look forward to, and one of the periodic transitions from Venus from Evendster to Morning Star.
March 1 – A ‘heavenly smiley face’
Venus in particular will stroll her things through the sky at the beginning of March. The planet will be fierce enough to be easily visible with the naked eye. The relatively small size and the proximity of the sun, on the other hand, usually make it difficult to identify in the night sky. During the first two weeks of March, however, observers will have two excellent opportunities to see it.
During this time, Mercury will be surprisingly clear – the fourth brightest object in the air. The sparkle will only touch the Venus and Jupiter and the Star Sirius behind the planets. The catch is that it only sets 90 minutes after sunset, so you have to fall outside as soon as the sun goes down.
Although Mercury will be visible at the beginning of March, there are two nights that offer particularly good opportunities to see it: March 1 and March 7. On March 1, the position of De Halve Maan will help to spot mercury, according to Space.com.
The easiest way to find Mercury will be to first find Venus – which should be easy, because it will be the single brightest object in the air. Once you’ve found Venus, look to the left. Mercury floats just above the horizon – and a little further to the left, roughly between the two planets. The Half Maan will complete a heavenly smiley face for the centuries.
March 5 – The Moon and Jupiter Rendezvous
After March 1, the Moon route in the air will take the removal of Mercury and Venus, towards one of the brightest objects in the air: Jupiter. On March 5, De Halve Maan will appear closest to Jupiter, making the planetary colossus of our solar system easy to recognize. The always essential Farmer’s Almanac Advises an hour after sunset to search for both moon and planet and keeps an eye on the orange star Aldabaran, which will be just among them.
March 13- ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse!
It is another month before the moon: as well as the aforementioned emoji-related hijinks, March brings the only full lunar eclipse of 2025. The event will last completely from 11:57 PM 13 to 6 am Edt on March 14. 2:26 and 03:31 am Edt.
Full lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes completely in the shade of the earth, and although they are not as spectacular as full solar eclipses – where the earth enters the shade of the moon – they are still events that are worth seeing!
[ Related: How the blood moon gets its ghoulish hue. ]
You can also see this event as a “Blood Moon”, a name derived from the color that the moon takes during the eclipse. While a solar eclipse the earth dives into volatile darkness, this does not happen for the moon: some light is broken by our atmosphere on the surface of the moon. The light that reaches the moon is largely in the direction of the low wavelength, the red end of the visible spectrum, because lamp with a higher wavelength tends to be spread through the atmosphere.
March 14- Full wormmaan
As soon as the weather is reassibly visible in the night sky, the Moon will reach its peak lighting on March 14 at 02.55 am Est. The full moon of March is called the Wormmaan, a name that is believed to refer The earthworms that start to come from hibernation when spring starts to heat the earth again. Extra Indian names For the full moon of March are the “Hard Crust on the Snow Moon” (Anishinaabemowin), the Moon of the Strawberry/First Leaves Month (Cherokee) and the delicious “The Day is cut in two moon” (Oneida.)
March 20 – Vernal (Spring) Equinox
Although it may seemed as if the winter of the northern hemisphere would never end, the season will officially end up on March 20, with the VErnal – or Spring – Equinox. This equinox (and its counterpart, the autumn equinox, which reads the beginning of autumn) are the two days on which the northern and southern hemisphere in essence is in essence, because neither is tilted in relation to the sun.
[ Related: Why 60 degrees in fall feels different than in the spring. ]
March 22- Venus will be the morning star again
Historically, Venus was sometimes called the “Morning Star”. However, readers with sharp eyes will have noted that the planet was definitely not interested earlier this month, and it was preferable to show himself in the night sky. This happens because the position of Venus in the air actually oscillates between in the morning and at night, depending on how the planet is placed in relation to both the earth and the sun.
March 22 marks such a transition. Venus will go briefly between the earth and the sun and an alignment that is known as an “inferior conjunction”. For comparison: a “superior conjunction” happens when Venus connects to the earth and the sun, but on the other side of the latter. After March 22, Venus will remain the rest of 2025 in the morning sky.
Which cosmic miracles you intend to spy in March to spy on, remember that you have the best results when you get away from the lights of your city or city, and as far as possible from other sources of light pollution.
As soon as you are at your destination, set your telescope (if you are lucky to have one!), Or you will otherwise just find a nice place to sit and stare at heaven. View our star viewing tips, give your eyes for half an hour to get used to the darkness, look up and immerse yourself in the beauty of the cosmos.
See you next month!