March 1999

March 1999

1999

Day		Moonage	Phenomenon (JST)
1	Mon	12.8	R-CVn is at maximum brightness (Mag:6.5-12.9,Period 195 days)
			17:33 Occultation of Regulus(Mag:1.3) (time is in Tokyo)
			23:17 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
2	Tue	13.8	15:58 Full Moon
3	Wed	14.8	19:12 Lambda-Tau is at minimum brightness
			22:00 Mercury is at eastern greatest elongation(18o10'.7, Mag:-0.3,Dia.:7".3)
4	Thu	15.8	R-Boo is at maximum brightness (Mag:6.2-12.1,Period 223 days)
			20:44 Moon passes equator, to southern hemisphere
			22:31 Pluto is closest to Asteroid Juno (00o46'.3)
5	Fri	16.8	01:39 Beta-Lyr is at minimum brightness
6	Sat	17.8	09:58 Longitude of the sun reaches 345 degrees
			22:31 Jupiter is closest to Mercury (02o25'.1)
7	Sun	18.8	RT-Cyg is at maximum brightness (Mag:6.0-10.1,Period 190 days)
			11:22 Moon passes 03o05' north of Mars
			18:05 Lambda-Tau is at minimum brightness
8	Mon	19.8	13h Comet 60P/Tsuchinshan 2 (Period 6.79 years) passses perihelion
			14h Moon is farthest from the Earth 1.053(404,752km,Moonage 19.9,Dia.:29'.5)
			22:50 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
9	Tue	20.8
10	Wed	21.8	S-UMa is at maximum brightness (Mag:, 7.1-12.7,Period 285 days)
			R-Vir is at maximum brightness (Mag:6.1-12.1,Period 145 days)
			00:00 Algol is at minimum brightness
			06:26 Mercury is at apogee(R.A.:00h10.0m)
			17:40 Last quarter moon
11	Thu	22.8
12	Fri	23.8	08:47 Moon is at south most(Decl.:-19o34'.9)
			20:49 Algol is at minimum brightness
13	Sat	24.8
14	Sun	25.8	07:47 Moon passes 01o22' north of Neptune
15	Mon	26.8	04:40 Moon passes 01o17' north of Uranus
			11:16 Pluto is at apogee(R.A.:16h42.3m)
			19h Comet 102P/Shoemaker 1 (Period 7.24 years) passses perihelion
			22:24 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
16	Tue	27.8
17	Wed	28.8
18	Thu	0.3	Higan no iri
			00:13 Beta-Lyr is at minimum brightness
			03:48 New Moon
			05:16 Moon passes 07o10' south of Mercury
			18:42 Mars is at apogee(Decl.:14h41.7m,Mag:-0.6,Dia.:12".3)
			20:08 Moon passes 02o48' south of Jupiter
			23:41 Moon passes equator, to northern hemisphere
19	Fri	1.3	09:20 Mercury is at inferior conjunction(03o45'.6 north of Sun,Mag:4.9,Dia.:10".9)
			23:31 Mercury is closest to Sun (03o15'.5)
20	Sat	2.3	08:40 Saturn is closest to Venus (02o22'.2)
			09h Moon is nearest to the Earth 0.945(363,269km,Moonage 2.2,Dia.:32'.9)
			10:24 Moon passes 05o17' south of Venus
			11:53 Moon passes 02o47' south of Saturn
			21h Comet 136P/Mueller 3 (Period 8.71 years) passses perihelion
21	Sun	3.3	National Holiday in Japan (Syunbun no hi)
			06:22 Venus passes 02o34'.1 north of Saturn
			10:46 Longitude of the sun reaches 0 degrees
22	Mon	4.3	National holiday in Japan
			R-Lep is at maximum brightness (Mag:5.5-11.7,Period 427 days)
			21:48 Occultation of Gamma-Tau(Mag:3.9) (time is in Sapporo)
			21:57 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
23	Tue	5.3
24	Wed	6.3	19:18 First quarter moon
25	Thu	7.3	05:18 Moon is at north most(Decl.:+19o39'.0)
26	Fri	8.3
27	Sat	9.3	RR-Sco is at maximum brightness (Mag:5.0-12.4,Period 281 days)
28	Sun	10.3
29	Mon	11.3	01:58 Occultation of Regulus(Mag:1.3) (time is in Naha)
			21:31 Delta-Lib is at minimum brightness
30	Tue	12.3	RU-Her is at maximum brightness (Mag:6.8-14.3,Period 485 days)
			22:47 Beta-Lyr is at minimum brightness
31	Wed	13.3

Special Thanks to Shirakawa Astronomical Observatory