Planets:
Mercury: Mercury is not really visible this month. It reaches superior conjunction on the 17th and might just be seen right at the end of the month. It’s probably best to wait until April to see it in the evening sky, when it will be better placed.
Venus: This is now a prominent evening object and becoming increasingly easy to observe. It starts the month with a low declination of +4 degrees, but moves northwards and by the end it is nearly +18 degrees, making it significantly higher in the evening sky. Its magnitude remains around – 4 throughout. The phase decreases from 85% to 77%, although the angular diameter increases only a little to 14 arc seconds.
On the 24th March, Venus will be only 0.1 degrees north of the Moon.
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