This photo shows the moon near Saturn on Sunday morning, March 11, 2018. It’s from Jenney Disimon in Sabah, N. Borneo.Steven A. Sweet in Toronto, Canada – who runs the Facebook page Lunar101-MoonBook – caught the moon, Saturn and Mars on Sunday morning, March 11.Dennis Chabot of Posne Night Sky on Facebook caught the moon, Saturn and Mars on Sunday morning, March 11.View larger. | Judy Allen in Minnesota caught the moon, Jupiter (far right), Mars (nearest moon) and Saturn on the morning of March 9, 2018.Photographer Sian Houle in Minnesota caught Jupiter and the moon on the morning of March 7, 2018.Victor C. Rogus in Arcadia, Florida, also caught the moon on March 7 and wrote: “I waited for over an hour for a slow-moving break in the clouds.” Canon 60Da camera, using a Baader “Vario Finder” as a lens. Camera on tripod. The lens is a 10×60 (61mm x 250mm f/4.1)Ken Gallagher in Lake Havasu, Arizona, caught the very bright planet Jupiter inside a lunar halo on Tuesday morning, March 6, 2018.Jupiter (left of chimney) and the moon (right of water tank) from New York City on March 6, 2018, by Ben Orlove. “I went up to my building’s roof. When I got there, just before 6, the sky was too bright to see Mars or Saturn. I did like this New York view of the moon and Jupiter, though.”Moon sweeps past planets – March 7-10, 2018 – via EarthSky.
Bottom line: Photos of the moon sweeping past the morning planets in early March 2018.
Deborah Byrd (asteroid 3505 Byrd) helps edit EarthSky.org and is a frequent host of EarthSky videos. Deborah created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Prior to that, she had worked for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory since 1976, and created and produced their Star Date radio series. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named in her honor in 1990, a Public Service Award from the National Science Board in 2003, and the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society in 2020. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.
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