Exciting Night Sky Events That Will Appear This March 2022

It's already March and a lot of things will happen at this time of the month, especially at nighttime.

Here are the night sky event for March 2022 provided by Chris Vaughan of Starry Night Education, the pioneer in space science curriculum solutions.

March 1 - Mars Marches with Venus

Throughout most of March, the planets Venus and March will be visible in the southeastern sky before sunrise, providing an excellent picture opportunity.

On any dazzling morning, Venus will be exceptionally radiant in the minor southeastern sky, succeeded by 250 times delicate Mars a narrow palm's amplitude below it Vesta, the magnitude7.6 minor earth, will be a thumb's amplitude above Mars, as per Space.com.

Until mid-month, the two planets will be touching off eastward near the ecliptic coursing that, Venus will hang toward the sun, while Mars will have behaved west with the rest of the stars.

March 2-Mercury will Passes Saturn

Look low in the east-southeastern above around dawn on mornings focused on Wednesday, March 2, to image Mercury pass up spot-on to Saturn.

From Monday through Friday, the two planets will be visible via binoculars, with Mercury approaching from the top right (celestial west).

At closest approach on Wednesday morning, Mercury will be barely a finger's breadth to Saturn's lower right (or 0.7 degrees to the celestial south) - near enough for them to share the view through a home telescope, Mercury will move to Saturn's lower left on the following mornings.

March 2- A New Moon goes out to Dark Skies

There's no better way to take advantage of March's crystal-clear viewing conditions than with an early new moon that keeps light pollution (at least from the skies) to a minimum, as per Treehugger.

It is one of the most distant permanent objects that can be seen with the naked eye, located roughly 2.73 million light-years from Earth.

To find it, go outside when the sky is black and search for it in the constellation Andromeda.

March 4- a rocket is going to land on the moon

On March 4, all indications pointed to it being the enormous upper stage of a 2015 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Following more observations, the original researcher behind the finding withdrew his SpaceX claim and instead reported his revised belief that it is a rocket from China's 2014 Chang'e-5 T1 flight.

March 5- Mars will pass Messier 75

The path of the crimson planet Mars will take it near to the spherical star groups Messier 75 and NGC 6864 in the southeastern sky before daybreak on Saturday, March 5.

From Friday through Sunday, the planet and the cluster will be near enough to share the view with a backyard telescope.

Mars will be a finger's breadth to the upper left (or 0.7 degrees to the celestial north) of the magnitude 9.2 clusters during the closest approach on Saturday, but your optics may flip and/or invert that configuration.

Observers in southern latitudes, where Mars will be higher in the sky, will get a better view of the event.

March 6- Uranus will appear and a great opportunity to spot through binoculars

The waxing crescent moon will be placed a little distance below (or celestial west) of the magnitude 6.8 planet Uranus in the western sky after nightfall on Sunday, March 6.

The moon's orbital speed will have brought it closer to Uranus by the time it sets in the late evening, especially for watchers in the western Americas.

Observers in eastern Antarctica, southeastern Australia, southeastern Melanesia, and southern Polynesia will be able to see the moon occult Uranus about 07:30 GMT.

March 20- the celebration for the Vernal Equinox

The spring equinox represents a positive milestone in our transition to warmer weather and longer days.

The vernal equinox will begin around 11:33 a.m EST. The sun rises precisely due east and sets exactly due west on this date, with sunlight striking both hemispheres evenly.