Look for the thin crescent Moon, low in the WSW about an hour after sunset. You'll see the unlit portion of the Moon faintly illuminated - “the Old Moon in the New Moon's arms”.
Date
Mar 13
Event
Start of Daylight Saving Time: 2 a.m. EST (“spring ahead, fall back”). Also the anniversary of the discovery of Uranus in 1781.
Date
Mar 14
Event
PI DAY, the occasion of math celebrations in many schools, after the celebrated transcendental number 3.14159… (known to at least 62 trillion places).
Also the birthday in 1879 of Albert Einstein.
Date
Mar 29
Event
Looking low in the east, an hour before sunrise, you'll see a beautiful conjunction of planets with the waning crescent Moon.
