Maps: NASA Blue Marble, Black Marble, LRO, MESSENGER, Cassini, New Horizons · Mars: NASA/JPL/USGS Viking mosaic, relief from MGS MOLA (NASA/GSFC, 6x vertical exaggeration) · Jupiter: Hubble OPAL 2019, NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) (CC BY 4.0), enhanced colour · Sun's limb: NASA/SDO AIA 304 Å · Sun, Saturn, Saturn's rings, Uranus, Neptune, clouds, relief: Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0) · Moons and small worlds: NASA/JPL/USGS; Io, Ganymede, Titan, Triton via CelestiaContent (CC BY, Askaniy Anpilogov et al.); Mimas, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Ceres, Vesta via Stellarium (CC BY 4.0, Oleg Pluton, FarGetaNik) · Bennu, Ryugu, Itokawa, Eros, Arrokoth: shape models NASA PDS / OSIRIS-REx / NEAR / New Horizons (CC0), Ryugu ISAS/JAXA (CC BY 4.0); maps via CelestiaContent (Askaniy Anpilogov, Roman Tkachenko; Stooke, NASA PDS; CC BY) · Orbits: JPL, Minor Planet Center; asteroids and comets: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database (via KStars) · Spacecraft trajectories: NASA/JPL Horizons · Rotation: IAU WGCCRE · Data: NASA NSSDC
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The night sky in March 2027
What happens in the sky in March 2027, worked out from orbital data. Open the calendar to see each event in 3D. Times in UTC.
7 sky events this month
4 Thu The Moon passes Venus, about 2.1° apart · around 08:41 PM The Moon moves about its own width across the stars every hour, so it passes each planet about once a month. The gap is as seen from Earth's centre; from where you stand it can differ by up to a degree. In the east before sunrise.
6 Sat The Moon passes Mercury, about 1.2° apart · around 06:27 AM The Moon moves about its own width across the stars every hour, so it passes each planet about once a month. The gap is as seen from Earth's centre; from where you stand it can differ by up to a degree. In the east before sunrise.
8 Mon New Moon · around 09:22 AM The Moon is on the Sun's side of the sky and can't be seen. The nights around it are the darkest of the month, the best for the Milky Way and faint meteors.
17 Wed Mercury at greatest western elongation: best before sunrise Mercury is as far from the Sun in our sky as it gets this time, 28°. Look low in the east shortly before sunrise.
19 Fri The Moon passes Jupiter, about 1° apart · around 09:07 AM The Moon moves about its own width across the stars every hour, so it passes each planet about once a month. The gap is as seen from Earth's centre; from where you stand it can differ by up to a degree. Up most of the night.
20 Sat March equinox · around 08:23 PM The Sun crosses the celestial equator heading north. Day and night are close to equal everywhere; spring begins in the northern hemisphere, autumn in the southern.
22 Mon Full Moon · around 10:28 AM The Moon is opposite the Sun, so its whole face is lit. It rises around sunset and is up all night.