Moon

The Moon will be in the last quarter on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at 12:29 CET. It moves through low-lying constellations and on Thursday, March 20, in the early morning, it passes over the star Pi Scorpii (2.9 mag), one of the claws of Scorpius. The downside is that the event occurs around three o’clock in the morning.

Planets

• Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune are not observable because they are angularly close to the Sun.
• Venus (–4.2 mag) will soon follow the same fate. We have only a few days left to spot it in the evening sky shortly after sunset.
• Uranus (5.7 mag) is still about 30° high after nightfall, approximately above the western horizon, seven degrees below the Pleiades in Taurus.
• Jupiter (–2.2 mag) in the corners of Taurus is slightly higher above the southwest.
• Mars (0.1 mag) culminates over the south in Gemini at that time.

Solar Activity

The Sun’s activity is moderate, and its surface is adorned with many sunspots, but no active region currently has the potential for very strong eruptions.

Author: Martin Gembec