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Updated: 7:34 PM EDT March 16, 2021 Looking into the vast expanse of the night sky can be both mesmerizing and a bit intimidating.   What are you seeing?   The answer is a lot.   To help narrow it down to one thing for you to look for this week, I had an online chat with Tom Wildoner from the Dark Side Observatory in Weatherly. "On the 18 and 19, we're going to have the crescent moon in the western sky.  You're going to see the planet Mars and you're going to see a star cluster called the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters," said Wildoner. Spotting Mars and the Pleiades in the ...

See Mars pass the Pleiades star cluster this month See Mars pass the Pleiades star cluster this month February 15, 2021 at 10:36 am Over February – March 2021, the planet Mars will be passing south of the beautiful, blue open cluster M45, also known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters, making for a fantastic night-sky observing or astrophotography target. Advertisement The best time to see it will be 1-5 March, with closest approach on 3 March and the Moon nearby on 19 March, but you can start observing the two as we approach the end of February. Mars appears next to the ...