{"id":1831,"date":"2023-03-07T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sternwarte-zweibruecken.de\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T10:33:47","slug":"the-starry-sky-in-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sternwarte-zweibruecken.de\/en\/archive\/1831","title":{"rendered":"The starry sky in March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Goddess of love and father of the gods come close at the beginning of the month<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The days are already getting noticeably longer, the sun is passing the equator (20th beginning of spring) and summer time starts again last weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MOON<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The moon will be full on March 7, which means that more light-intensive objects such as Jupiter and Saturn will be observed. At new moon on March 21, it will be much better for deep sky objects. (Deep sky objects are those located outside our solar system, i.e. star clusters, galaxies, nebulae, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">The view into <strong>north direction<\/strong> The circumpolar constellations, which are visible all year round, include the Great Bear high in the north-east with the well-known asterism Big Dipper, the Little Bear with the Pole Star, around which the inconspicuous Dragon winds its way. In the northwest Cassiopeia and Cepheus. Just above the horizon, a very bright star, Deneb, the main star of the summer constellation Swan, could be visible from an elevated viewing position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>STAR PICTURES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">After sunset you can enjoy the <strong>Western sky <\/strong>catch one last glimpse of the autumn constellations, such as Andromeda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">In the <strong>South<\/strong> the winter hexagon dominates with the winter constellations.  These are Gemini, the Wagoner and Taurus, with the reddish main star Aldebaran, the Eye of Taurus, which is sometimes confused with Mars. Aldebaran is called Nanurjuk by the Inuit and symbolizes a polar bear. It was placed by dogs, we call this open star cluster Hyades. For the Inuit, the hunters who want to hunt down the polar bear are the three prominent belt stars of Orion and the bright Rigel. In Greek mythology, Orion also symbolizes the sky hunter, who is followed by the constellations of the Greater and Lesser Dog. The latter with the brightest star in the sky, Sirius. The most striking object in Orion is the famous Orion Nebula, an area in which new stars are formed. Some, such as the Trapezium stars, have a surface temperature of around 50,000 \u00b0K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">On <strong>Eastern sky<\/strong> Leo is visible and Virgo appears as the night progresses. But these are constellations that you can save for spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PLANETS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mercury<\/strong>&nbsp;can be observed in the WNW sky after sunset at the end of the month. It will show its best evening visibility this year in April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Venus<\/strong>&nbsp;shines brightly in the evening sky. Its angular distance from the Sun continues to increase. It will pass Jupiter at the beginning of the month. You will be able to see both planets simultaneously in the eyepiece of a 1000 mm telescope.  On March 24, Venus will be close to the crescent moon. At the end of the month it will be close to Uranus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mars<\/strong>&nbsp;At just under first magnitude, Mars is still relatively bright, but its distance from Earth is already quite large (diameter 6 arc seconds), so that few details are recognizable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jupiter<\/strong>&nbsp;will be passed by Venus on March 1-2. On March 22, the narrow crescent moon can be seen next to it once again. It will disappear in the evening twilight at the end of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Saturn<\/strong>&nbsp;is not visible in the night sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Uranus<\/strong>&nbsp;is visible in the early evening hours.  Venus passes it on 30.3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Neptune<\/strong>&nbsp;is conjunct the Sun in the middle of the month and cannot be observed.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/sternwarte-zweibruecken.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Himmel-im-Maerz.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sternwarte-zweibruecken.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Himmel-im-Maerz.jpg 642w, https:\/\/sternwarte-zweibruecken.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Himmel-im-Maerz-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The sky view on March 01 at 19:15<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goddess of love and the father of the gods come close at the beginning of the month The days are already getting noticeably longer, the sun passes the equator (20th beginning of spring) and summer time begins again last weekend.  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