THE BIG THREE
DON’T MISS
MORNING PLANETS
BEST TIME TO SEE: All month. Mars-Jupiter close conjunction on 20 March, Mars-Saturn conjunction on 31 March
While Venus steals the show by quite some margin in this month’s evening sky, there’s plenty happening in the pre-dawn morning twilight too: the three planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all appear together low in the southeast.
As dawn is breaking at the start of March, all three appear in a line, visible low in the southeast. Mag. +1.1 Mars appears more first, followed by mag. –1.8 Jupiter and mag. +1.0 Saturn. An interesting exercise is
