Sunday, March 16, 2025

Today: You can watch the waning Gibbous Moon lift into the east this evening just before 10 o’clock, led by a fairly bright, bluish-white star called Spica, the only bright star in Virgo. Through the night they progress higher through the southeast, cresting due...

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Today: The Ides of March meant the middle of March to the Romans, and specifically the night of the Full Moon, because their calendar was a lunar calendar. The Full Moon from last night would actually be this month’s “ides”, however, today’s...

Friday, March 14, 2025

Today: Tonight’s skies are lit up by the Full “Sap” Moon, sometimes called the Full “Worm” Moon, thought – technically, the Moon was Full during last night’s total lunar eclipse. It may take a few to several weeks before we...

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Today: A total eclipse of the Full Moon will occur tonight, for the first time since November 8, 2022. The partial phase of the eclipse will occur after midnight, at 1:09 AM EDT on the 14th. The totality phase begins at 2:26 AM and ends at 3:32 AM; when the partial...

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Today: The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, sparkles in the south as twilight fades by 8 o’clock, sliding into the southwest through the course of the evening, one of the first stars out as twilight fades. Its brilliance is due, in part to its relative...

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Today: The nearly Full Moon rises out of the early evening dusk at around 5:45 PM. Rising with it, but not emerging, until about an hour later, is the constellation Leo, which appears just above the Moon. Of the stars in Leo, the one closest to the Moon is the...