The moon moves into the constellations of early spring in the coming week. On Tuesday night the gibbous moon is in the zodiacal constellation Leo and near the bright star Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation.
In winter Leo hovers at the eastern sky as the night unfolds. It takes several hours to rise high in the east. Now, Leo is a dominant constellation high in the eastern sky after sunset and it moves overhead as the night progresses.
Leo, the mythological lion, is an open window to beyond the stars of our Milky Way. While each visible star marks the constellation, beyond those stars the area is loaded with distant galaxies. Some of them are visible with a pair of binoculars. A knowledgeable amateur astronomer, pointing a pair of binoculars in that area of the sky, can’t count how many visible galaxies are out there. There are so many.
The moon will spend several nights in the constellation before exiting later in the week and moving into the summer constellation Virgo, another constellation laden with more galaxies than you can count with a good scope.
Day | Sunrise | Sunset |
---|---|---|
Fri., March 23 | 6:40 | 6:56 |
Sat., March 24 | 6:38 | 6:57 |
Sun., March 25 | 6:37 | 6:58 |
Mon., March 26 | 6:35 | 7:00 |
Tues., March 27 | 6:33 | 7:01 |
Wed., March 28 | 6:32 | 7:02 |
Thurs., March 29 | 6:30 | 7:03 |
Fri., March 30 | 6:28 | 7:04 |
Day | Max (Fº) | Min (Fº) | Inches |
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March 16 | 43 | 31 | 0.00 |
March 17 | 40 | 26 | 0.00 |
March 18 | 41 | 19 | 0.00 |
March 19 | 33 | 22 | 0.00 |
March 20 | 38 | 26 | 0.00 |
March 21 | 38 | 30 | T |
March 22 | 38 | 33 | 0.74 |
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