9 March, 5.47pm: Full Moon
11 March: Moon near Spica
15 March: Moon near Antares
16 March, 9.34am: Last Quarter Moon
18 March (am): Moon near Jupiter and Mars
19 March (am): Moon near Saturn
20 March (am): Mars near Jupiter
20 March 3.49am: Spring Equinox
23 March (am): Mars very near Pluto
24 March, 9.28am: New Moon
24 March: Venus at greatest eastern elongation
28 March: Moon near Venus and the Pleiades
29 March, 1am: BST begins
29 March: Moon near Venus, the Pleiades and Aldebaran
31 March (am): Mars near Saturn
Heather Couper passed away on 19 February. Read her obituary here
Philip’s 2020 Stargazing (Philip’s £6.99) by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest reveals everything that’s going
on in the sky this year
Fully illustrated, Heather and Nigel’s The Universe Explained (Firefly, £16.99) is packed with 185 of the
questions that people ask about the Cosmos