Look for Mars shining very high in the southwest during dusk.
Because Mars comes to eastern quadrature — 90-degrees east of the sun — on March 16, it should now appear distinctly gibbous in even a very small telescope all month. Most amateur telescopes won't be able to resolve any substantial detail on Mars; in fact, by the end of March its apparent diameter will have shrunk to 6.4 arc seconds, which is only about one-third the size Mars appeared to us at the end of November when it was closest to earth at 50.6 million miles away.
In contrast, by the end of March, Mars will have receded to a distance of 135 million miles from us. . On Thursday, March 30, Mars will be passing about a degree to the north of the cluster making for a pretty sight in binoculars. On the North American evening of April 14, avail yourself of another good binocular target: Mars will pass just 13 arc minutes — 0.22 degrees — south of the third magnitude star, Mebsuta. To get an idea of how close that is, that's less than one-half the apparent width of the moon. and will have an interesting interaction with those two luminaries during the fourth week of April with the moon also getting involved during the evenings of April 25 and 26.
If you're hoping to catch a glimpse of the moon and Mars individually during the conjunction our guides for the
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